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The Trial January 22, 2005
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I'm not sure why this kind of dystopia world gone mad kind of thing appeals to me, but it does. It's like horror or suspense stories on a macro scale.
From Amazon:
Still hoping for the giant bug thing.A terrifying psychological trip into the life of one Joseph K., an ordinary man who wakes up one day to find himself accused of a crime he did not commit, a crime whose nature is never revealed to him. Once arrested, he is released, but must report to court on a regular basis--an event that proves maddening, as nothing is ever resolved. As he grows more uncertain of his fate, his personal life--including work at a bank and his relations with his landlady and a young woman who lives next door--becomes increasingly unpredictable. As K. tries to gain control, he succeeds only in accelerating his own excruciating downward spiral.
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Posted by Joost Schuur on January 22, 2005 10:48 PM:
You're thinking of Metamorphosis ("One morning, when Gregor Samsa woke from troubled dreams, he found himself transformed in his bed into a horrible vermin....")
Kafka was required reading when I went to school in Germany ;)
Posted by Joost Schuur on January 22, 2005 10:49 PM:
Oh, and since you're not allowing HTML in comments:
http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/5200
Posted by Jamie on January 23, 2005 10:09 AM:
Ah, yep. Metamorphosis was what I was thinking of. Crazy Germans.
Posted by Joost Schuur on January 23, 2005 3:16 PM:
Well, technically, he was Czech/Austrian:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franz_Kafka