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| Franz Kafka, age 5 |
I was an anxious child, and yet I am sure
I was also disobedient, as children are,
I am sure that Mother spoilt me too,
but I cannot believe that I was
particularly difficult to handle,
I cannot believe that you,
by directing a friendly word
my way or by giving me
a kind look, could not
have got everything
you wanted from me.
Franz Kafka
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| Schocken Books |
Had Hermann Kafka been
a loving father to his son,
Franz Kafka...
This book might never
have been written.
And...Maybe...
Wishes would be horses
and beggars could fly.
But that's not all, folks...
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| Designed by Peter Mendelsund |
THE TRIAL would not have been
about a man who gets arrested for
no apparent reason without ever
learning the nature of the crime
he is being locked up for.
BUT...
Franz Kafka could have written
a through-the-looking-glass
version of THE TRIAL.
THE E-TICKET would have been
about a man who gets something
for no apparent reason without
ever learning why he has won
an all-expense paid trip
to Disneyland.
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| This is not Alice in Wonderland Nor is it from THE E-TICKET |
At the end of the story, the man
opens a door much larger
than himself.
He finds a word written in letters
as large as the door.
In rainbow colors,
they spell out on single word:
B-L-O-C-K B-U-S-T-E-R.
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The 1962 film version of Franz Kafka's
THE TRIAL was written & directed
by Orson Welles.
It starred Anthony Perkins.
The next Kafka page is here.
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