The trial
This disturbing and vastly influential novel has been interpreted on many levels of structure and symbol; but most commentators agree that the book explores the themes of guilt, anxiety, and moral impotency in the face of some ambiguous force.Joseph K. is an employee in a bank, a man without particular qualities or abilities. He could be anyone, and in some ways he is everyone. His inconsequence makes doubly strange his "arrest" by the officer of the court in the large city where K. lives. He tries in vain to discover how he has aroused the suspicion of the court. His honesty is conventional; his sins, with Elsa the waitress, are conventional; and he has no striking or dangerous ambitions. He can only ask questions, and receives no answers that clarify the strange world of courts and court functionaries in which he is compelled to wander. The plight of Joseph K., consumed by guilt and condemned for a "crime" he does not understand by a "court" with which he cannot communicate, is a profound and disturbing image of man in the modern world. There are no formal charges, no procedures, and little information to guide the defendant. One of the most unsettling aspects of the nove
is unimpressed, so the lawyer brings in Block. He finds the place where the painter lives, a ramshackle, stuffy, poorly-built apartment, surrounded by a bunch of young girls who want to know why K. Chapter 9: In the Cathedral An Italian, one of the bank's biggest clients, comes to town and K. He has just been talking to the Chief Clerk, and the three of them begin talking. tells the lawyer that he's had it with him. Bertold has entered the room at some point and is hulking towards them. For the next week he can't get it out of his mind and goes back to look at the room, only to find everything as it was last week, with the whipper and the two warders there again. It owns everything, like those girls out there. He tries to interest Joseph in this matter and they start walking through the labyrinthine, dark, stifling offices. They take out a butcher knife and begin passing it to each other over him.
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