Blog Assignment #4 - Der Prozess

The Trial, my favourite book by Franz Kafka, and the first I read by him. My parents bough me, years ago, when I was a child, a book's collection (it came with the newspaper), so when I was bored, I read those books one by one, until I took on my hands a book with a weird title, by an author that I had never heard before. It was The Trial.

Initially I wasn't interested on read it, because its title suggested me a kind of book relationed with laws and all, and i'm not interested on that topics. However, I gave it a chance, and I read it. The story plunged me on an absurd world, where the protagonist, Joseff K., is dealing with a trial which details he doesn't knows. During his searching for an answer, the author shows to the reader how people, society composed by people, and laws made by people, functions on a disfunctional way. It appears that K. is the only sane person on a world of fools, but as the book progress, he considers the way that he is insane, and the world is right. I loved the book's topic, and it introduced me on the new world of existentialism.

I recommend this book because gives you a chance of think about what's wrong with society, what's wrong with ourselves, a chance of change. The most of people begins to read Kafka with The Metamorphosis, but after I read some books by him, posthumous and unposthumous, I concluded that the real Kafka's essence lives in the writings that he wanted to burn, and The Trial is one of them.