![]() ![]() ![]() He is rather like one of Dickens' naive young characters, a German David Copperfield. This is what I cannot like about the character. He allows himself to be exploited needlessly. Karl Rossmann is too trusting, and perhaps lets those around him get away with too much. He is a ridiculous character who gives Karl, we feel, ridiculous advice, but he is also presented as a person of intelligence, and therefore, authority. We cannot believe the student but at the same time we do. What I specifically enjoyed about this scene was the unnerving atmosphere that Kafka develops with brilliance. Towards the end Karl encounters a student on a balcony next to his. the young immigrant Karl Rossmann sees the Statue of Liberty. Karl cannot make sense of the challenges he faces and neither can we. Kp boken The Man who Disappeared av Franz Kafka (ISBN 9780199601127) hos Adlibris. Not only is it brilliantly written, it also tells the kind of story we can all relate to in the modern world - that is the ridiculousness of the institutions we have to confront in a world where everything is riddled by procedure. ![]()
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