Harmon, you are certainly have a true appreciation for literature, but your tastes run to the nineteenth century ideal of examination of the souls of characters and tracing their lives, rather than the twentieth century focus on the existential dilemmas of man. Kafka's characters are stick figures if even that, and maybe The Trial is not the book to reread again and again in the short twilight of a deserted tropical isle - but don't tell me that Kafka is not great.
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