The Trial
Kafka wrote the definitive nightmare of modern bureaucracy — a man arrested for a crime no one will name, tried by a court no one can find, destroyed by a system no one controls.
“Someone must have slandered Josef K., for one morning, without having done anything wrong, he was arrested.”
Why It Matters
Kafka wrote the definitive nightmare of modern bureaucracy — a man arrested for a crime no one will name, tried by a court no one can find, destroyed by a system no one controls. The novel gave us the word "Kafkaesque" because no other word captures the experience of being trapped in an absurd, impersonal system. It is the most prophetic novel of the 20th century.
The 
Take
Personal reviewSuper interesting concept, just this deep philosophical/literary/metaphorical reflection on Law and Bureaucracy, but for me, it was either too cliche or way too trippy/deep where it was hard to really know what to think… but maybe that’s what Law is like idk
Notable Quotes
“It is not necessary to accept everything as true, one must only accept it as necessary.”
“Like a dog!”