{"id":5079,"date":"2017-05-29T17:28:09","date_gmt":"2017-05-30T00:28:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nicksenger.com\/onecatholiclife\/?p=5079"},"modified":"2018-02-22T11:04:27","modified_gmt":"2018-02-22T19:04:27","slug":"classics-club-9-the-trial-by-franz-kafka","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/nicksenger.com\/onecatholiclife\/classics-club-9-the-trial-by-franz-kafka","title":{"rendered":"Classics Club #9: The Trial by Franz Kafka"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><a href=\"http:\/\/amzn.to\/2rh3KCz\">The Trial<\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/amzn.to\/2rh3KCz\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-5084 size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/www.nicksenger.com\/onecatholiclife\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/kafka_the_trial-191x300.jpg\" alt=\"The Trial by Franz Kafka\" width=\"191\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"http:\/\/nicksenger.com\/onecatholiclife\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/kafka_the_trial-191x300.jpg 191w, http:\/\/nicksenger.com\/onecatholiclife\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/kafka_the_trial.jpg 318w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 191px) 100vw, 191px\" \/><\/a>\u00a0<\/em>by Franz Kafka is one of the masterpieces of existential literature. Or so it is said. Since I&#8217;m not up to date on my existential philosophy, the book was largely wasted on me. It&#8217;s always a challenge to read books that come at life from a different world view than one&#8217;s own, but to give them a fair chance requires wrestling with their philosophical underpinnings. I&#8217;m not at a point in my reading life or my intellectual life where I&#8217;m interested in exploring the existential experiences described by Franz Kafka in\u00a0<em>The Trial.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Kafka certainly knows how to create atmosphere and bring a story to life, but the problems for me were the absurdist plot and the unappealing main character, Josef K.\u00a0While I admire Kafka&#8217;s craft as a writer, and acknowledge\u00a0<em>The Trial<\/em> as an important work of literature, it&#8217;s simply not to my taste at this stage of my life.<\/p>\n<p><em><a href=\"http:\/\/amzn.to\/2rh3KCz\">The Trial<\/a>\u00a0<\/em>by Franz Kafka<br \/>\n<em>First edition<\/em> Berlin: Verlag Die Schmiede, 1925<br \/>\n<em>Kindle edition<\/em> Ware, Hertfordshire, England: Wordsworth Editions, May 1, 2012<br \/>\nPrint length: 193 pages<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Trial\u00a0by Franz Kafka is one of the masterpieces of existential literature. Or so it is said. Since I&#8217;m not up to date on my existential philosophy, the book was largely wasted on me. It&#8217;s always a challenge to read books that come at life from a different world view than one&#8217;s own, but to give them a fair chance requires wrestling with their philosophical underpinnings. I&#8217;m not at a point in my reading life or my intellectual life where I&#8217;m interested in exploring the existential experiences described&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5084,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"Classics Club #9: The Trial by Franz Kafka #ccbookreviews","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1057,5],"tags":[842,47,830,950,949],"class_list":["post-5079","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-book-review","category-books","tag-book-reviews","tag-classics","tag-classics-club","tag-existential-philosophy","tag-franz-kafka"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/nicksenger.com\/onecatholiclife\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/kafka_the_trial.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pOucj-1jV","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/nicksenger.com\/onecatholiclife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5079","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/nicksenger.com\/onecatholiclife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/nicksenger.com\/onecatholiclife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nicksenger.com\/onecatholiclife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nicksenger.com\/onecatholiclife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5079"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/nicksenger.com\/onecatholiclife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5079\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5086,"href":"http:\/\/nicksenger.com\/onecatholiclife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5079\/revisions\/5086"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nicksenger.com\/onecatholiclife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5084"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/nicksenger.com\/onecatholiclife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5079"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nicksenger.com\/onecatholiclife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5079"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nicksenger.com\/onecatholiclife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5079"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}