THE TRIAL by FRANZ KAFKA

Personal Rating: 7.5/10

"It is not necessary to accept everything as true, one must only accept it as necessary.'

'A melancholy conclusion,' said K. 'It turns lying into a universal principle."

Perhaps I don't quite still understand the novel which made me hesitate to review it; or perhaps Kafka wanted it complicated.

Imagine you wake up one day, in your bedroom, and only this time you're not a "horrible vermin" but this time you wake up and find that you're under arrest for a crime that remains nameless and unknown for the rest of the story.

Such is the case with the protagonist of the novel, Joseph K, who not only finds himself facing something to which he has no knowledge neither power but is also being crushed morally if not physically by the 'authoritarian power'. He feels crushed by the authoritarianism which somehow in the real world might portray as the Government of a nation, or perhaps The Law and Justice.

He suffers, knowing that he is innocent, but at a point of time he makes his peace with the blame, for the accusation. Perhaps the crime he commits is a crime that every man commits; we hear something like that in the 9th Chapter named "The Cathedral" where he speaks with 'The Priest' or Doorkeeper whatever it was. I wouldn't spoil it any further but not only was the whole story a bit directionless, even the ending seemed much rushed. It thus remains an unfinished work as Kafka himself wanted it to be burnt immediately after his death.

Nonetheless, I enjoyed reading it, even though some parts of it were complicated and hard to follow through and felt like a drag, but cannot complain can they?

Its true that the beauty in Kafka's novel is not in the simplicity of the subject, not in the repeated arrangement, but in the disarrangement and complicacy of the plot.

In its true sense, its Kafkaesque.

Thank you for reading.