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Karl rossmann kafka5/21/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() Whereas Joseph K is relentlessly hunted down for a crime that remains nameless, K ceaselessly attempts to enter the castle and so belong somewhere. Both are atomised, estranged and rootless citizens decieved by authoritarian power. ![]() Both Joseph K in The Trial and K in The Castle are victims of anonymous governing forces beyond their control. Kafka, a Czech writing in German, never acutally visited America so, as Max Brod commented, the innocence of his fantasy gives this book if advanture its peculiar colour. Here, ordinary immigrants are also strange, and America is never quite as real as it should be. Kafka, a Czech writing in German, never acutally visited America so, as Max Brod commented, the innocence of his fantasy gives this book if advanture its peculiar In America Karl Rossmann is packed off to America by his parents to experience Oedipal and cultural isolation. In America Karl Rossmann is packed off to America by his parents to experience Oedipal and cultural isolation. ![]()
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