Subject: Re: Kafka's "The Trial"
From: Paul Miller (phm@midsouth.rr.com)
Date: Fri Mar 24 2000 - 11:17:22 EST
Tim wrote:
Well, to me it's pretty straightforward. It's about absurdities,
especially given that it's nominally about the law (which one thinks of
as a fixed, or generally fixed, entity) and the arbitrary execution of
the
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I think as an overview and in general the story and "The Trial" as a whole
are a statement of the absurd. I can't help but think there is more going on
here though.
Something about authority being within ourselves and how we so easily give
that to others and institutions. When the two men killed K. they looked
cheek to cheek down at his face, to look in his eyes I think, to see the
verdict. The verdict was in K. , so maybe the door to the law their also.
Paul
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