https://blog.georgefabish.com/tags/the_trial/ Recent content in The_trial on George's Blog Hugo en-US Mon, 02 Jan 2023 00:00:00 +0000 https://blog.georgefabish.com/reviews/the-trial/ Wed, 31 Dec 1969 19:32:05 -0500 https://blog.georgefabish.com/reviews/the-trial/ <p>This is about a guy named Joseph K. who wakes up one morning to find out that he is under arrest. But no one can tell him why. This is a very surrealist novel in which everything in the world seems to operate by complex systems that are hidden both to the character and the reader. One of the most interesting parts of the book is that it really gives you no one to relate to. Out of habit you initial attach your view to the main character, but the way in which he navigates the world quickly becomes somewhat alien and hard to understand. In its own way his actions are just as confusing as the court system&rsquo;s. This book does a great job of making the reader uneasy and never sure of what will happen next as the connection between action and consequence is hard to decipher. I read this because of Camus&rsquo; recommendation, and I can see why he liked it as one could imagine the book &lsquo;The Outsider&rsquo; as being a descendant of &lsquo;The Trial&rsquo;. The last words of Joseph K. &ldquo;like a dog&rdquo; have stuck in my head ever since. People/Franz Kafka Albert Camus</p>