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Rating: 3.5/5
Pages: 262
Started: 25 April 2024
Finished: 6 May 2024
Summary:
Joseph K wakes up one morning to two correctional officers in his bedroom. Thus begins a complex legal trial that he cannot seem to escape. With legal offices in every attic and lawyers who talk in circles, it becomes increasingly unclear what is a product of a strange and nebulous legal system, and what is a product of Mr. K's own paranoia.
Thoughts:
What a wacky book. I really enjoyed it; the paranoia was fascinating, and every scene was so strange that it was really engaging. The free indirect discourse in the piece was very subtle, which made the paranoia more fun to dig through, and the (paranoia-induced) legal system that the book described was absolutely insane. The sexism was admittedly intense, and the scenes where the protagonist wouldn't leave the bedroom of his next door neighbor was hard to read. But there was not a single point in this book where I was bored, and the ending (a tragic death, of course) was both startling and fitting; I don't think this book could have ended any other way. This was a strange thing to read, but I'm so glad I did.