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Kafka's The Trial becomes Jiang's literary model for bureaucracy: a system arrests innocent people and wages pointless prosecutions because it needs activity even when everything is meaningless.
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Kafka's The Trial becomes Jiang's literary model for bureaucracy: a system arrests innocent people and wages pointless prosecutions because it needs activity even when everything is meaningless.
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"...why is the entire world like this so this is France Kafka and he was writing before World War One this is his most..."
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"figure out why but he does not know what he did wrong he does not know why he's been arrested and then he's put..."
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