Reading Franz Kafka – The Trial in European Literature Days 2015
Thu 07 May 2015, 6.30 pm
Goethe Institut
From Goethe Institut:
You are invited to the reading “Franz Kafka – The Trial” in the framework of European Literature Days 2015.
“Someone must have been telling tales about Josef K. for one morning, without having done anything wrong, he was arrested”. This is the first sentence of the most famous novel written by the virtuosic writer Franz Kafka. On the morning of his 30th birthday, Josef K. is arrested, without being conscious of any guilt and with nobody telling him the reason for the arrest. Step by step the narrator Josef K. tries to cope with this mysterious incident and to solve the case. As the nature of this crime is neither revealed to him nor the reader, Kafka achieves in creating suspense and an incredibly psychologically sophisticated plot.
The term kafkaesque also derives from the novel. It is mainly used in the context of situations which are similar to the one of Josef K.: the experience of facing an absurd and hostile bureaucracy which has developed a momentum of its own.
Language: Vietnamese
Free admission.
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