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The Trial

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Kafka novel analyzed by Jameson as depicting the coexistence of modern corporate work life with archaic imperial legal bureaucracy.

Mentions (5)
"Orson Welles, director of THE CITIZEN KANE (literally the Citizen Kane of movies), claimed that CHIMES AT MIDNIGHT was the greatest movie he ever made. Of course he said the same thing about THE TRIAL too, but he was right about this one."
"what you first notice in reading The Trial is the presence of a modern, well-nigh corporate, work-week and business routine; Joseph K. is a young banker (a 'junior executive' or 'confidential clerk') who lives for his work, a bachelor who spends his empty evenings in a tavern and whose Sundays are m"
RIP Fredric Jameson. He died on Sunday · u/kgas · ↑52 · 2024-09-24
"Of course he said the same thing about THE TRIAL too, but he was right about this one"
"what you first notice in reading The Trial is the presence of a modern, well-nigh corporate, work-week and business routine; Joseph K. is a young banker"
RIP Fredric Jameson. He died on Sunday · u/kgas · ↑52 · 2024-09-24
"two girls around my age talking about The Trial by Franz Kafka"
You should talk to strangers more · u/Medical_Zombie3329 · ↑23 · 2025-08-02
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