Mr.K

Franz Kafka, i am reading him right now and the thing is that i like it, but there is a simple problem, i can't understand 90% of his texts background. I am focusing on "The Trial" at the moment and its true meaning is truly in a hiding from me. It seems to be a mockery towards the court system of the time (pre WWI Austro-Hungary), but so much else. I see a meaning in every column of oddity and abstraction but can't quite put a finger on it, or even near it.
My literature teacher believes he saw the coming of the 20th century - the concentration camps, the 1917. revolution and all the evil that will be so well known to people of the time, and already are to us, but i really don't feel i am up to really discussing about that in detail for a grade.
I just thought if anyone would care to write his opinion of Kafka and if possible, about "The Trial". Well, toodles, happy modernistic experiences!

Well, i think i have gotten the point, or rather points, alot of points of the book. It tells so many possible stories from the freaky court system of the era to the future rise of dictatorships with which such passive terror and ignorance and mass confusion come in a package. It also has a wise story of telling how everyone, from the most stupid of men to real judges and juries judge people of who they know no more about then a perfect stranger. This rampant in the modern society and we are all the judges on the paintings of Titorelli who are the judges of everyone.
Read "the Trial" 6 times and you will surely get  atleast 6 stories of brilliance.

My literature teacher had a good question for us, the students - she smiled at us, and asked "How many trials are you being investigated in  and in how many are you the judges and advocates?"