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What do you make of Kafka's Before The Law parable?

>> No.9056395

>>9056046
read the trial, the priest explains why it's shit.

>> No.9056425

>>9056046
Wrote a freshman year final class paper on it.

Just wrote a bunch of bullshit philosophizing because I am a stemfag and the class was a faggy Liberal Art Gen Ed.

Got an A

>> No.9056426

>>9056395
I've read The Trial.

>the priest explains why it's shit.
What do you mean, shit?

>> No.9056429

>>9056426
He explains a couple of different ways to interpret it, right.
So it's not really a 'good' parable because it fails to fulfill its purpose.

>> No.9056445

>>9056429
The priest insists that those are just opinions and that they are irrelevant because the text is unchangeable no matter what its interpretations and that the opinions themselves are "often nothing but an expression of despair over this fact" I also said "parable" because it presents itself as one, but it's not, unlike a "shitty one" like you said.

>> No.9057860

>>9056445
>The priest insists that those are just opinions
Can you summarize, excerpt, or post he opinions and interpretations of it?

And, what did you make of it?

>> No.9057883

Don't do as your told, do as you must because your life is at stake.

>> No.9058287
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9058287

>>9056395
>>9056425
>>9056426
>>9056429
>>9056445
>>9057860
>>9057883

>> No.9060071

>>9058287
So what is it then?

>> No.9060141

I forgot it.

>> No.9060225

he shoulda just gone in and stopped asking

>> No.9060242

>>9060071
>asking that
How unself aware can you get

>> No.9060464

it's about the shakeup of the post-industrial class systems