Is /prog/ really like how it's depicted in Franz Kafka's The Trial? If so, what is the trial, and who is the accused?
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Anonymous2012-02-04 5:04
"Despite all his denials and beautiful evasions, [Kafka's writing] quite simply is Jewish writing."[17] Lothar Kahn is likewise unequivocal: "The presence of Jewishness in Kafka's oeuvre is no longer subject to doubt."[30] Pavel Eisner, one of Kafka's first translators, interprets the classic, The Trial, as the "triple dimension of Jewish existence in Prague is embodied in Kafka's The Trial: his protagonist Josef K. is (symbolically) arrested by a German (Rabensteiner), a Czech (Kullich) and a Jew (Kaminer). He stands for the "guiltless guilt" that imbues the Jew in the modern world, although there is no evidence that he himself is a Jew." [31]