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Franz Kafka, Edibooks, David Wyllie: The Trial (Paperback, 2016, Createspace Independent Publishing Platform, CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform) 4 stars

Byzantine and claustrophobic novel of a man arrested by the secret police and charged with …

Disappointing

2 stars

That was disappointing. Too dense, too random and K is such an annoyingly obnoxious character that, by the second chapter, I was wishing they'd just lock him up and throw away the key.

The story can be read as a warning against the banal bureaucracy ot totalitarianism, but these themes have been much better handled by subsequent writers.