Episode 233: Keeping It Surreal (Kafka's "The Trial" Pt. 1)
Very Bad Wizards
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i wanted to get thoughts about how to approach interpreting a novel like the trial. It is almost as if he knows he's probably guilty of something, but since they won't tell him what he's being accused of, he doesn't want to give it up. The parable of the law that the priest tells joseph kay, is also a parable about interpretation. Walter benamin claimed that kofka took all conceivable precautions against the interpretationof his writings. And i think, you know, part of that was, like, burning some of em, burning them. But then also, i think like that, having that parable, which we'll talk about at length at
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