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The Trial
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July 1, 2016
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Christina
Jan 25, 2021 rated it liked it
I read this twice because my attention span for the absurd, these days, is not what it used to be (in this age of 2020/2021). That is to say, The Trial is thematically almost too parallel to things we see in the world now: an exasperating circular trap owned by unidentified authority, kept alive by tools and perpetrators of nonsense in servitude to nothingness.

Possibly no one conveys hopeless entrapment, faux authority, bureaucracy as a weapon and indifferent humans better than Kafka. It's why
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