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Meaninglessness

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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Lecture interpretation on 2025-10-11.

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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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