The Process

«The Process» has become a kind of symbol of Kafka's creativity, although the writer left no clues by which to recreate the plot of the work: the chapters were not numbered and were contained in separate envelopes. The novel has... become a kind of symbol of Franz Kafka's creativity. Joseph K. — a rational hero among an absurd society. His unremarkable, even somewhat banal life was going its course until he was informed that a process had been initiated against him... The absurdity of what is happening to K. is frightening precisely because of its mundane, cold everydayness, and even the strange logic of the horror that is happening to the hero, against which he is powerless to resist. Where is the judge he has never seen? Where is the high court, to which he has not been admitted? He is guilty simply because every person in this life can be guilty of something...