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Looking for something light after Kafka's The Trial haha

I can see why people look at Kafka's work and can see a germ of fascism. The most chilling part of his writing is the relentless unstoppable nature of the forces involved. It is the perfect form of the unacountable, authoritarian state. A world so tied up in red tape it doesn't matter who's in charge, and even if it did there would be no way to change anything anyway.

Enjoyable in it's own, grimly farsical way.

Recommend by. a close friend

"Better than Harry Potter "is all I needed to hear

I've acclimated to the initially intimidating wall-of-text style. Enjoyable so far in a kind of farcical black comedy sense. Interesting to note it predates fascism - the complete domination and unshackable machinations of bureaucracy scream of a kind of "just following orders". It's also depressingly bleak in how unavoidable it makes it's portrayal. The force to be resisted is always out of sight, the result of am abstract other. It reminds me of surveillance capitalism somewhat. An invisible, irresistible morass of force.

Technically I'm reading Whale Weekly 😅