Thanks for doing this. I love Kafka and this story in particular. I just read a short story called 'Terror' by Nabokov. A real existential doozy that could use your expertise in much the same fashion you've done with this video. I like exploring philosophical short works of fiction such as these and I think it's possibly a niche no one on youtube has tapped into. Gogol's 'Diary of a Madman' is another potential prospect.
Each reader is the explorer. Sounds like foreshadowing to Foucault and Nietzsche ( "there is something festive in punishment"). Yes, a Régime as universally prescribed comportment. IF the explorer was an inmate, he may persisted in silent opposition. Years of silent opposition firms and fructifies an inmate. The machine was shown in its essence as it falls apart.
Tying honor, duty, and justice into the self execution of the officer after he was judged unjust seems like it might be the moral of the story if it has one. Its just hard to relate to the officer otherwise since the machine seems so obviously unjust in the first place and in the end broken. The old commandant being buried under a table with a promise to rise again is a fitting yet unsettling end to the story.
Thanks for doing this. I love Kafka and this story in particular. I just read a short story called 'Terror' by Nabokov. A real existential doozy that could use your expertise in much the same fashion you've done with this video. I like exploring philosophical short works of fiction such as these and I think it's possibly a niche no one on youtube has tapped into. Gogol's 'Diary of a Madman' is another potential prospect.
Glad you enjoyed it
Each reader is the explorer. Sounds like foreshadowing to Foucault and Nietzsche ( "there is something festive in punishment"). Yes, a Régime as universally prescribed comportment. IF the explorer was an inmate, he may persisted in silent opposition. Years of silent opposition firms and fructifies an inmate. The machine was shown in its essence as it falls apart.
Well, Nietzsche would be earlier, but Foucault indeed quite a bit later, and had read Kafka
Tying honor, duty, and justice into the self execution of the officer after he was judged unjust seems like it might be the moral of the story if it has one. Its just hard to relate to the officer otherwise since the machine seems so obviously unjust in the first place and in the end broken. The old commandant being buried under a table with a promise to rise again is a fitting yet unsettling end to the story.