Book Review

The Trial by Franz Kafka
My rating: 5 of 5 stars

The Trial is the story of a man arrested and prosecuted by a remote inaccessible authority for an unknown reason. I have heard that the story might get inspiration from what happened to Otto Gross a psychoanalyst and the only child of Hans Gross father of the science of criminology. Otto Gross who had was tried and incarcerated at the behest of his father without him knowing exactly why he was being arrested.
There is no law nor justice in The Trial, it is just unorganized excessively layered of people and interactions, bureaucracy and records that establish an imaginary hierarchy of power.
The ones in power have gone all the way into every aspects of people's lives, they occupy their bedrooms and turn it into courthouses. They take people's wives if they wanted to and people who have become chronically sad, numb and weak are incapable of doing anything. The so called justice has exhausted them.
Power wants you weak. It wants you to bend on your knees and kiss his ass. That is what the ones in power sadistically enjoy from being powerful.

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