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45. The Castle - Franz Kafka (Finished August 28) 417 pgs
I was actually a bit disappointed with this one. I loved The Trial and was really excited to read this one, but it just didn't do it for me. A big part of it was that it had no real ending; it just stopped. But then, I guess I can't ... ... hamsun - victoria
jack kerouac - desolation angels
jorge amado - home is the sailor
franz kafka - the trial
michel houllebecq - platform
cormac mccarthy - all the pretty horses
kurt vonnegut - slaughterhouse five
joseph conrad - heart of ... ... House
2. Anna Karenina
3. Wuthering Heights
4. Jane Eyre
5. Candide
6. The Picture of Dorian Gray
7. The Trial
8. Siddhartha
9. Mrs. Dalloway
10. The Heart of Darkness (I actually didn't like this one, but I'm glad I read it and I think it's an important book ... ... House
2. Anna Karenina
3. Wuthering Heights
4. Jane Eyre
5. Candide
6. The Picture of Dorian Gray
7. The Trial
8. Siddhartha
9. Mrs. Dalloway
10. The Heart of Darkness (I actually didn't like this one, but I'm glad I read it and I think it's an important book ... ... House
2. Anna Karenina
3. Wuthering Heights
4. Jane Eyre
5. Candide
6. The Picture of Dorian Gray
7. The Trial
8. Siddhartha
9. Mrs. Dalloway
10. The Heart of Darkness (I actually didn't like this one, but I'm glad I read it and I think it's an important book ... ... great library discard copy sitting on my shelf for about a year and a half, so it's high time I got around to it. I loved The Trial, so I'm excited for this one. Ok. I'll bite. For another Kafka, I give you The Trial. Am I right or still way off? ... for me to answer: Franz Kafka.
I started reading him in high school because his writing was so bizarre: The Castle, The Trial and especially Metamorphosis.
It was only later, reading him again, that I realized the penetrating understanding he had on the absurdity of society, ... *whispers*
The mailman dropped off The Trial by Franz Kafka yesterday. I got it through Marktplaats again, it might be an addiction! I was home first, so I snuck it upstairs. Ssshhht, don't tell my boyfriend... :) # 60 The Magus by John Fowles
Engrossing, confusing, and a little bit like Kafka's The Trial without the Kafka genius and with more sex. It was very easy to read, which was a nice change after Justine, especially since I'm heading into the rest of The Alexandria Quartet, along with B ... 4. Legal
(1) The Trial - I've given up on this touchstone. It keeps loading Kafka, when what I really want is Sadakat Khadi's history of criminal trials, from Socrates to O.J Simpson, which I have to say was much easier to read than Kafka!
(2) Among the Dead Cities ... Year of the Death of Ricardo Reis by Jose Saramago
Fluke by Christopher Moore
Vertigo by W. G. Sebald
The Trial by Franz Kafka
Changing Places by David Lodge
The Reader by Bernhard Schlink
The Pigeon by Patrick Suskind
Goodbye to Berlin by Chri ... ... in!):
1. We, by Yevgeny Zamyatin - surprised how many people on LT have read this book!
2. Amerika, by Kafka
3. The trial, by Kafka
4. Invisible Cities, Italo Calvino - just read it and love it.
5. Swann's Way, Marcel Proust
I am not sure whether the 'other ... ... can figure this out I have replaced my horseback image on my profile with a scan of Lambourne's title page photogramme for The Trial - if you click to enlarge you will get a much bigger and more detailed image that is rather slow to download. ... Kafka, they use the new, superior Pasley edition with Harman's translation of The Castle and Mitchell's translation of The Trial. When I read The Trial in German (the Brod edition with additions of deleted passage), I was struck by how Kafka's complex thoughts were often oversimplified ... The Folio 60 says that the FS published The Trial back in 1967 with a second impression in 1968. Photogrammes by nigel Lambourne, translated by Willa and Edwin Muir. That is the only Kafka title listed. ... to read books set in Italy.
On my last big holiday, which was in Maui, I took along the Handmaid's Tale and Kafka's The Trial, but could not get interested in them, though I happily read them both when I got home. I did end up breezing through Ian McEwan's Enduring Love on that trip. On ... Of those mentioned above I like:
Madame Bovary
The trial
The tin drum
The invisible man
The adventures of Huckleberry Finn
I would like to add
The magic mountain by Thomas Mann
I've read The enchantress of Florence and didn't like it at all, it might have put me off R ... ... by Chekov and Lu Hsun
Zuleika Dobson
Stories by Joyce and Portait of an Artist as a Young Man
Stories by Kafka and The Trial
Mrs. Dalloway, Orlando, and To the Lighhouse
Sons and Lovers
Brave New World
The Sound and the Fury, The Reivers and As I lay Dying
Stories ... ... by Ayn Rand
Barchester Towers by Anthony Trollope
Clarissa by Samuel Richardson
Evelina by Frances Burney
The Trial by Franz Kafka (mentioned before) ... ousseau
The Brothers Karamazov by Dostoyevsky
Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert
Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
The Trial by Franz Kafka
Why not choose a French novel as the next read?
I've just mentioned two of my favorites (I read both of them some years ago, but I would surely ... Kafka... I liked The Metamorphosis and then tried The Trial. That one just drove me bonkers and I quit. I can understand what he was trying to do, but it would have worked better as a short story. I've had a lot of reading time in May, so after I finished Pale View of Hills and The Trial I moved on to An Artist of the Floating World and In Cold Blood. I highly recommend them both, although they are very, very different.
After I finish Artist, the only Ishiguro novel I'll have left ... Two in one day...look at me.
I read The Trial.
How about a strange tale of existentialism: Nausea.
-- M1001 I've read If on a Winter's Night a Traveler. Very strange. Here's another strange one: The Trial by Franz Kafka #23 The Trial by Franz Kafka
Wow. Such a bizarre story - and scary. ... to be the 4th book of Ishiguro's that I've read, and I have yet to be disappointed.
After those are finished, I have The Trial by Kafka out from the library, so that'll be next. ... (long ago)
Juvikfolke
Growth of the Soil (in Norwegian: "Markens grøde")
Kristin Lavransdatter
Der Zauberberg
Der Prozess
The Murder of Roger Ackroyd (long ago)
Den tapre soldaten Svejk
Alberte og Jakob
Steppeulven (long ago)
... of the splurge. The day I got the card I bought Blood Meridian by Cormac McCarthy, Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov and The Trial by Franz Kafka. In turn, yesterday I bought Philip Roth's Ghost Writer and Alexsander Solzenitsyn's One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich. Thankfully I had ... I would consider The Trial by Franz Kafka, to be a profound dystopic novel. ... joined this group. I am currently rereading The Metamorphosis by Kafka which is mentioned in 1001 in the entries on The Trial and The Castle, so I am sort of reading a book from the list, I suppose, stretching a bit. As a number of people have said in various posts, frequently we ... ... s
14. Moby Dick
15. Middlemarch
16. War and Peace
17. Anna Kerenina
18. Huckleberry Finn
19. Ulysses
20. The Trial
21. The Sound and the Fury
22. Pale Fire
23. The Plague
24. The Great Gatsby
25. Things Fall Apart
... tour, and with plenty of reading to catch up on before my exams, so I'm bringing with me:
The Plague by Albert Camus
The Trial by Franz Kafka
The Europeans by Henry James
McTeague by Frank Norris
I'm also going to bring some fun books with me:
The Yiddish Policemen's Union ... Dutch / German Literature
1. The sorrows of young Werther FINISHED
2. The Trial FINISHED
3. Metamorphosis FINISHED
4. Death in Venice FINISHED
5. The garden where the brass band played FINISHED
6. Rituals
7. The tin drum
8. The Hidden Force FINISHED
Italian / French / Span ... ... Saturday by Ian McEwan
2. Lord of the Flies by William Golding
3. For whom the Bell tolls by Ernest Hemingway
4. The Trial by Franz Kafka
5. Uncle Toms Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe
Currently reading: A portrait of a lady by Henry James. I'm going with The Trial by Kafka and A Fine Young Man for some educational non-fic... and prob squeeze in some Pratchett when that all gets too heavy... Well I'm back again.
10. A Man for All Seasons - Robert Bolt (Finished Feb 2) 95 pgs
11. The Trial - Franz Kafka (Finished Feb 7) 286 pgs
I enjoyed both of these, and would thoroughly recommend the Kafka if you haven't already had the chance. I was completely upset and irritated by ... Just started Portrait of a lady by Henry James.
I finished the trial by Franz Kafka in January. ... Where the Brass Band Played by Simon Vestdijk
The Sorrows of Young Werther by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
The Trial by Franz Kafka and hope to finish
The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien ... is about a writer and The Arabian Nightmare is, to some extent, about an oral storyteller.
It might be worth adding The Trial or The Castle and Ishiguro's The Unconsoled and Abe's Kangaroo Notebook. Kafka's The Trial over time made me appreciate the nightmare of being trapped in any legal system. Most: Ian McEwen, as I enjoyed Saturday.
Least: Anything other by Kafka, cause the Trial was really frustrating to read. ... series. I have to say I'm not loving it, but I'll finish them. I'm glad you're enjoying them, though.
#38
I thought The Trial was hilarious! Certainly a cautionary tail, but it was like somebody's weird dream. ... version from the library, with actress Sissy Spacek narrating. It was close to perfect!
Book 3 is in progress: The Trial by Kafka, my book group's selection for February. I read 40 pages earlier this evening, am well on my way! ... have the same views of the different characters, but everyone enjoyed the book itself.
The next one we've chosen is The Trial by Kafka - which I haven't read but DO already own, yay! I joked to one of the other members, "I think we should just choose from a list of books that I own but ... ... Peace (which will be counted as the 5 individual books it originally came published as)
Underworld
Tale of Genji
The Trial
some Marquis de Sade
and after I've got myself excited about pain, Finnegans Wake
Plus, the international edition of 1001 Books to Read Before you Die ... ... '07
76. Doing Grammar, by Max Morenberg (yes, it's a text book, but it's still a book, and I read every word)
77. The Trial, by Kafka
78. Orphan Jack, by Sarah Ellis
79. The Pursuit of Love, by Nancy Mitford
80. The Golden Compass, by Philip Pullman
81. The Reader, by Bernha ... ... Digging to America, by Anne Tyler
3. Mexico: Like Water for Chocolate, by Laura Esquivel
4. Czech Republic: The Trial, by Franz Kafka
5. Germany: The Reader, by Bernhard Schlink
6. Spain: Shadow of the Wind, by Carlos Ruiz Zafon
7. Norway: Sophie's World, by ... ... reason these are either poor quality recordings (my copies I think) or have annoying bits out of sequence. I've started The Trial for reading on the exercise bike at the gym, which is going well. And also I've got a Philip K Dick compilation going for my youngest's bedtime book.
12 Harr ... The Trial
Franz Kafka
This was the last dystopian novel that I read, and to tell the truth, I was really tired of these depressing little worlds by the time I got to this one. The Trial is very much like listening to someone tell you his dreams—I could only take it in small chunks (abo ... 51. The Trial by Franz Kafka
52. On The Road by Jack Kerouac
53. The Shining by Stephen King
54. The Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan Kundera
55. Solaris by Stanislaw Lem
56. Life of Pi by Yann Martel
57. The Razor's Edge by W. Somerset Maugham
... ... and politics is a central theme of the novel, so it is almost impossible not to feel frustration while reading The Trial.
I had to take a step back from the frustrating feelings and realize that the novel is making fun of pointless systems; systems where everyone involved is ... ... stopped reading multiple books at once, and so concentrate on only one at a time.
But when I come across a book like The Trial, this technique is more difficult to follow. My edition is only 160 pages (approx.), so in theory I should have whipped through it quickly. But it just isn't that ... 1/3 into The Trial by Kafka.
I now find I have to read only 5-10 pages at the time, or else I totally loose the plot... ... what "heavy" means. Does it mean serious subject matter written in a serious style? If so, I don't think it describes The Trial.
Personally, I found that I had to really concentrate when I read it. It took effort, which is not necessarily a bad thing. I find some books that take ... I've just started reading Franz Kafkas The Trial.
I was told before that this was a really heavy book to get through, but I find it quite funny. It has long sentences and dialogues. But untill now, I've read 4 chapters, it has not come across as heavy. But maybe it will further on.
What ... I'm in the middle of Kafka's nightmare that is The Trial, which is set in Prague. But I've taken an unscheduled break and am currently being liberated from a Nazi concentration camp with Viktor E. Frankl in Man's Search for Meaning (an excellent book, so far).
Touchstones not working. ... woman (instead of all those nasty male characters) for a change.
After Nineteen Eighty-four I'm scheduled to attend The Trial with Franz Kafka. But then my course on dystopian fiction will be over, and I'm going to my happy place!! (Much like the protagonist at the end of the movie Br ... ... Shall Wipe My Tears Away...
Maybe I should check out Kafka's Burrow story. I read The Metamorphosis and then tried The Trial but got frustrated pretty quickly. Too many non-sequiters. Either it should have been a short story or it should have had some sort of internal logic. ... target=_blank>The last casualty by Peter Spring
The Trial by Franz Kafka
Senseless by Stona Fitch
... osts)
A Clockwork Orange (horrifying, but not horror)
Naked Lunch (same thing)
At the Mountains of Madness
The Trial (psychological horror)
The House on the Borderland (bizarro creepy-ness)
The Hound of the Baskervilles (sort of)
In a Glass Darkly
Maldoror
The Priva ... ... I will compare some of 1984, Darkness at Noon, Animal Farm, Lord of the Flies, Bend Sinister, Fahrenheit 451, The Trial, We, The Handmaid's Tale and/or Brave New World. ... Godot
PR--English literature: Beowulf
PS--American literature: Tender is the Night
PT--German literature: The Trial
PZ--Fiction and juvenile belles letters: A Kiss for Little Bear
Q--Science (General)--Dancing Naked in the Mind Field
QC--Physics: Perfectly Reasonable ... ... miscellaneous writings: The English Gentleman
829--Old English (Anglo-Saxon): Beowulf
833--German fiction: The Trial
840--Literatures of the Romantic Languages: Candide
842--French drama: En Attendant Godot
843--French fiction: The Stranger
863--Spanish fiction: Don ... ... for example.
Amongst many 'classics' my favorites would be Crime and Punishment by dear old Dostoievski, and The Trial by cuddly little Kafka.
After deep and demanding reflection, however, my all-time favorite crime novel would have to be The Third Policeman by Flann ... Some of my favorite writers are from Eastern Europe: Milan Kundera, Kafka, Sebald, Jerzy Kosinski are some that come to mind. I put in a tagmash: surreal, novel -- to see what LTers might have come up with in their taggin efforts:
The trial by Franz Kafka
One hundred years of solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov
Life of Pi : a novel by Yann Martel
T ... If that is your reaction, then I proudly take my place as "demagogic {sic} academic scum."
But then, I was a Duke Student. I have been around their parties. (Not at, but you only had to be a few blocks away to get the flavor of the experience.) ... bbe-Grillet
Another unexpected treasure from my college required reading. The surreal plot is reminiscent of Kafka's The Trial, but this book is set apart by a main character who is a real and sympathetic person. I loved this book, but be warned that it demands a lot of intellectual ... The Trial by Franz Kafka
Kafka's Other Trial by Elias Canetti
Rumpole on Trial by John Mortimer
The Trial of God (as it was held on February 25, 1649, in Shamgorod) : a play in three acts by Elie Wiesel
Trial Run by Dick Francis I'm done with The Trial and still trying to decide whether to take it as satire or a parable for the power of the state.
I'm now starting Finn by Jon Clinch, which tells the story of Huckleberry's father. I like stories that build on classic tales -- Gregory Maguire's books are ... sandragon, the mouse does have a super-IQ -- but not THAT super! He's just really, really good a mazes.
I've started The Trial by Kafka.
dihiba, you've found a rare thing -- something I have neither read nor heard of in CanLit. Let me know what you think of it when you're done. The opening line of The Trial: "Someone must have been slandering Josef K., for one morning, without having done anything wrong, he was arrested." Franz Kafka
I've just read The Castle, by Kafka, and liked it very much. As The Trial is one of my favorite books ever, I have just took up K., by Roberto Calasso. Calasso comments on Kafka's body of work and while doing so he craftly observes the connection between The Castle and The Trial. It 's ... ... I mean), because well, unless we all can read Russian or German, we could have never read works like War and Peace or The Trial, right?
There are quite a lot of Portuguese authors' works translated into English (a few did write in English, by the way, some live in the UK), I can name a ... ... Thinking, A Confederacy of Dunces, Bel Canto, Straight Man, Mandala, The Book Thief, Howl, Swann's Way, The Trial, and about a dozen others. I also got a gift card to Half Priced Books and a new book shelf to put all of my new books on. I am one happy birthday girl. i'm sure it's The Trial by Franz Kafka...as a novel, though maybe his The Complete Stories...well, it's obvious Kafka's my favorite writer... The Trial by Franz Kafka
A favorite ending because its 3 words say so much by way of allusion (Biblical). I recently saw the Holocaust movie Fateless and it reminded me of this book, as it seemed like a cross between The Trial and The Stranger by Albert Camus, both ... ... Aspenström - Samlade dikter
4. Katarina Frostenson - Från Rena land till Korallen
5. Franz Kafka - Processen
6. Marguerite Duras - Älskaren
7. August Strindberg - Röda rummet
8. Thomas Pynchon - Gravitationens regnbåge
9. Charles Baudela ... ... of going out, but for the purpose of understanding existentialism, The Stranger illustrates it best. In contrast, Kafka's The Trial, as fascinating as that is, ends up pointing towards nihilism, quite the opposite of existentialism. And Kierkegaard, forget about it, though his pseudonymous ... ... the novels in chronological order. But the others somehow didn't make it onto my list for this year - and I even purchased The Trial just last month. That's yet another book that I really should have included on the list. ... great; and Winkie, which was very fun - one description I read said it was a combination of The Velveteen Rabbit and The Trial, and I would say this is pretty much accurate.
Also, to list them for the record, before finishing Crime and Punishment (still celebrating that one), I read ... ... (and ordered yesterday - I love Amazon Prime):
It Can't Happen Here by Sinclair Lewis
How I Live Now by Meg Rosoff
The Trial by Franz Kafka ... inka
Something by William Gass
Something by Salman Rushdie - just to see what's the fuss about!
Kafka The Trial maybe...
The Way of All Flesh Samuel Butler
Something by Saul Bellow I have a friend who just loves him, I need to find out why!
Something by ... ... saw 'Brave' as a Dystopia, I saw it as a Utopia, but not one our current collective psychology could embrace. Also try The Trial by Kafka. It's a dream-scape of bureaucracy and a court system gone awry. And rather funny if you have a dark sense of humor. ... short course on existentialist fiction. The set texts were.....
Dostoevsky Notes From Underground
Franz Kafka The Trial
Jean-Paul Sartre Nausea
Albert Camus The Stranger
Albert Camus The Plague
Saul Bellow Dangling Man
Norman Mailer An American Drea ... ... short course on existentialist fiction. The set texts were.....
Dostoevsky Notes From Underground
Franz Kafka The Trial
Jean-Paul Sartre Nausea
Albert Camus The Stranger
Albert Camus The Plague
Saul Bellow Dangling Man
Norman Mailer An American Drea ... Yes, I have made up my mind. The Trial is ordered and I can already..(taste it is unseemingly, see it not nearly good enough) sense it!
I am indebted to you both. The FS edition of The Trial is a good one. I think it is the only FS edition illustrated with photogrammes. These are by Nigel Lambourne whose drawings illustrate a number of the Society's editions. The photogrammes are abstract images produced from monochrome photographs. As befits the book, ... ... once upon a time...)
1.The Waves
2.Crime and Punishment
3.The Master and Margarita
4.The Magic Mountain
5.The Trial
6.The Grapes of Wrath
7.And Quiet Flows the Don
8.The Longest Journey
9.Wide Sargasso Sea
10.Blindness
As always not entirely sure of the order - ... ... to finish one of the novels without major aides and I think aides are far too distracting.
OK, so my favourite novel is The Trial and my favourite short stories are (in whichever language their titles spring to mind now) Ein Landarzt, A Metamorfose and Josephine the Singer, or The Mouse Fo ... So, favorite works by Kafka? The Trial was always my favorite of his novels, while "The Penal Colony" is my personal favorite short story (though I think "The Metamorphosis" has one of the greatest opening lines in literature). I can't really explain this preferance, so just chalk it up to simple ... Most truly great writers are funny -
Ulysses
The Trial
Tristram Shandy
At swim two birds
Murphy
Gerald's Party
Mulligan stew
Herzog
see what I mean?
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