Heads up, I've solved The Trial. Yeah, analysis is endless, every perspective has merits blah blah blah, but mine fits the text better. Working paper availible at https://works.hcommons.org/records/pqv72-z3w87 or https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=7465159 (paper is the same in both, except for one reference i fucked up, but who cares about references anyway).If you're feeling lazy you can skip pages 4-5, that's just in there because academics will drop anything that regards the authors intent (despite orienting themselves around intent while denying they're doing so), so I have to explain to them how to read, but if you read the paper you'll see that it's all emergent from the novel anyway. The same conclusion can be reached without knowing anything about the historical Kafka, the art justifies its own meaning, but the meaning concerns the creation of the art itself.Read like half of it so you can dunk on me for being wrong, then read the rest of it when you realise I'm right. Enjoy.
>>25542866i'm on page 11 right now. i wish you had someone do a copy edit before you published this. i like what you've had to say so far, though. will come back when i finish the entire thing.
>>25542866Endless psychological recursion is a staple for Kafka, so if that is the shtick you're identifying, then you're almost certainly correct. He does the same thing in the original manuscript of The Tunnel as well, which had a loose "The..." at the end before it was edited out posthumously. Well done.
>>25542990>i wish you had someone do a copy edit before you published this. I can always make changes, suggestions are welcome. Thanks for reading it. >>25542994>Endless psychological recursion is a staple for Kafka, so if that is the shtick you're identifyingNot quite. While K does become complicit in his own trial, this isn't the thing that makes him guilty, but a recognition of the reality of the world which he's forced to inhabit. Being tried punishes the accused as though they're already guilty, so living the rest of their life this way is the same as them being guilty, and this proof through life of their guilt becomes the justification for their mistreatment. K doesn't make himself guilty, he simply recognises that the truth of the world overwhelms his personal convictions, “’‘A depressing opinion,’ said K. ‘It means that the world is founded on untruth.’”
>>25543021well, for example, am i dumb or did you mean to use 'glean' and 'gleaning' instead of 'gleam' and 'gleaming'
>>25543027Nice catch, thanks anon. I thought they were the same word lol, as in it shines, or it shines information/illuminates truth. I thought it was good wordplay given the context of the light that shines from the darkness of the law in that section, but I guess not.
>>25542866Thanks anon learnt alot, I am reading it and can see case for recursive metafiction.Are you a university grad or just a freelancer?cause the paper looks professional
>>25543243Thanks for reading. Just a freelancer for now.
>>25542866Publish more. This is great.
>>25545220Thanks, I plan to. This is just the beginning my friend.
>>25545341Teach me your ways, well, at least a brick of it
>>25545402A book is just a puzzle that wants to be solved. Read books that stick with you, mull them over, then read them again. Remember that it's not an intellectual exercise, but an empathetic one. You're not trying to outwit the author or the other readers, you don't get bonus points for thinking of something more complicated, you're allowing the book to discover something that was already in you. Empathy is the point of literature. Our experiences our singular, but we discover meaning in the experiences of others as they all draw from elements that are already within us, and recognising the connection helps us find a new part of ourselves.
Bump.
>>25547421>>25549737This looks desperate, which means people won't take you seriously>your paperBut I have opened it and will read it. Haven't yet. The abstract's rough, anon. I'll just be honest. Not saying your paper is wrong or your ideas are bad, haven't read enough of the paper to say, but your abstract has the writing style of someone who doesn't read as much as they think they do
>>25550320>This looks desperate, which means people won't take you seriouslyThe thread was about to die, are you new to 4chan?>but your abstract has the writing style of someone who doesn't read as much as they think they doNever mind, you've been here forever.
Give me a gist of what you come to. I want a reason to waste my time reading this.
>>25550710kys nigger, read my shit, it's not like you have anything better to do
First time I see someone's writing being complimented so much here. Not saying it's a bunch of samefags, but it does look strange for how out of the ordinary it is. Regardless, it made me want to read it lol
>>25550715I definitely have better things to be doing. I could be reading literally anything else, having a coffee, going for a walk, having sex, etc. But I enjoy the Trial, so if you have anything enlightening to say about it, I'd be curious to read, but I want you to give me reason to. Based on what other anons have said, it seems like it's probably pretty poorly written, and not worth it.
>>25550731>Not saying it's a bunch of samefagsIt's definitely a bunch of samefags. Look how quickly OP responds, as if he's hovering over this thread waiting for any and every response.
>>25550715Nice larp.>>25550710I included an abstract.>>25550731I don't suck my own dick.
>>25550742>having sex,You know where we are right? It's ok, you don't have to lie anon.
>>25542866Without reading anything you had to say it is about a man who gets in trouble for something random and then goes through the DMV and then gets his wig split right? I'm sure whatever you wrote is very good so well done though
>>25550752It's okay, my girlfriend browses too, mostly /pol/ though. She kissed me, and instead of turning me into a prince, I turned her into a frog.
>>25550749Summarize it in three sentences.
>>25550754I believe the part about you having sex with a frog.
>>255507551:There's2:An3:Abstract
>>25542866>This paper analyses imposed guilt in The Trial, that is, how accusaƟon renders the accused not only unable, but unworthy of escaping the restricƟons that prevent them from proving their innocence, a life lived as though they were guilty serving as proof that they were guilty, and thus that their mistreatment was jusƟfied.Better? I haven't read this book, or even heard of it until now, so, why this book?
