Der Proceß

One of my favorite authors who write in German is Franz Kafka. so I read what is his most characteristic book: Der Proceß. Reading in German is a lot slower than reading in English so it kept me busy during my travels to the Netherlands and Germany a few weeks ago.

It’s a beautiful, disturbing book about a trial. It makes you realize that bureaucracy could always be worse — it could be like Kafka’s.

It was a beautiful book to read, and I was very interested to see how it would end. The strange order of the chapters in the end threw me off — I never read reviews of books before I read them so I didn’t know that the book was left not quite finished by the author, even though the final chapter was written.

I’ve read Das Schloss in the past and just recently I read Die Verwandlung. The next Kafka on my list is Amerika, or perhaps I’ll read some of his short stories first.