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"Moonlight lay everywhere with the naturalness and serenity no other light is granted."

Franz Kafka, The Trial

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All literature is anarchist literature if you want it to be

#we just finished reading The Trial in class #by Kafka #the ending is AWESOME #also I am currently reading Animal Farm #which I am also loving so far #franz kafka #george orwell #animal farm #der prozess #anarchism #anarchist literature #literature

Franz Kafka's unfinished novel, Der Prozess, was published in German on 26 April 1925, less than a year after Kafka's death from tuberculosis at the age of 40. The first English translation (as The Trial) was published in 1937.

While Kafka had published some short stories during his lifetime, he died virtually unknown and instructed his friend Max Brod to burn all of his writings. Brod famously ignored these instructions and began publishing Kafka's writings, which quickly attracted praise and attention.

Kafka wrote the majority of the novel in 1914 and 1915 while he worked as an insurance agent, composing on loose leaf notebook paper, with no indications of which order chapters should appear. Brod edited the pages himself and structured the novel as he saw fit, while Kafka's intentions remain unknown.

The Trial received mixed reviews when it first appeared, but has since been recognized as not only one of the most important German novels of the 20th century, but one of the most important novels ever published.

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