Der Proceß
by Franz Kafka · first published 1825
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Byzantine and claustrophobic novel of a man arrested by the secret police and charged with an unspecified crime. Unable to defend himself and disorientated by the legal process at work around him the man soon becomes apathetic and acquiescent, accepting his eventual sentence as inevitable.
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…English translation: > http://www.kafka-online.info/before-the-law.html Here a narrated version (German): > https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=77JLmS6diaE This parable is also part of the novel fragment "Der Proceß" (The Trial) by Franz Kafka - a novel that I can also highly recommend: > https://gutenberg.spiegel.de/buch/der-prozess-9771/1 English translation: > http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/7849
on “Can the Law Be Copyrighted?” ↗…But this is fully automated bureaucracy. Except instead of having well known rules or human bureaucrats we can confront Reminds me of a novel that was written over 100 years ago: > The Trial (German: Der Process,[1] later Der Proceß, Der Prozeß and Der Prozess) is a novel written by Franz Kafka between 1914 and 1915 and published posthumously in 1925. One of his best-known works, it tells the story of Josef…
on “Amazon destroys $1.5m of sellers inventory – now homeless” ↗> No need to hack the law. Our FOSS code is constitutionally protected free speech and I would defend on those grounds. "Der Proceß" [The Trial] by Franz Kafka is just a realistic description of the court system (Franz Kafka studied law).
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