The Trial by Franz Kafka is in the 21st place on The Greatest Books of All Time site, we have the term Kafkaesque from this classic, indeed, we have another two magnum opera, The Castle and The Complete Stories by Franz Kafka, in the Bokklubben World Library (Norwegian: Verdensbiblioteket) Best 100 of All Time – more than five thousand reviews from both lists, and others, are posted on my blogs, the one used in the present is https://realinibarzoi.blogspot.com/2025/02/is-this-unique-could-it-make-money.html Kafkaesque has become Trumpian today? I wonder…

 

The Trial by Franz Kafka is in the 21^st place on The Greatest Books of All Time site, we have the term 

 Kafkaesque from this classic, indeed, we have another two magnum opera, The Castle and The Complete Stories by Franz Kafka, in the Bokklubben World Library (Norwegian: Verdensbiblioteket) Best 100 of All Time – more than five thousand reviews from both lists, and others, are posted on my blogs, the one used in the present is https://realinibarzoi.blogspot.com/2025/02/is-this-unique-could-it-make-money.html

Kafkaesque has become Trumpian today? I wonder…

 

9 out of 10

 

Franz Kafka is celebrated as one of the greatest writers of all time, he has three chefs d’oeuvre among the Best 100 of All Time, and maybe Dostoevsky has more, I am not sure https://realinibarzoi.blogspot.com/2025/07/the-castle-by-franz-kafka-stupendous.html The Castle is another classic

 

Nevertheless, it may not work his magic on everybody, I mean I have lived for most of the time in a Kafkaesque land, and that may affect the reading of the man who gave us the term, when you are in it, the description may hurt

 

‘Kafka: now there's another man who can't tell a story, who's incapable of illustrating the slightest thing, or the most important thing, by action. I don't think I've ever seen so many abstract nouns in a supposedly narrative writer before…’

The above is from Magister Ludi Kingsley Amis https://realinibarzoi.blogspot.com/2025/07/the-letters-of-kingsley-amis-edited-by.html and it proves that we can have different views on one who is an established luminary

 

The other qualm would have to do with living in the world of Kafka, until the age of twenty five in my case, in 1989 we had the Revolution in which I took part http://realini.blogspot.com/2022/03/realini-in-newsweek-participant-in.html - this link is below, but who knows, you may miss it there, so you have the chance to check here as well-

 

-          Therefore, I have had Kafkaesque all the time, under Ceausescu

 

It was an absurd regime, and you find in Eugene Ionesco https://realinibarzoi.blogspot.com/2025/06/exit-king-aka-le-roi-se-meurt-or-regele.html another accurate assessment of life here

 

-          Alas, the world is Kafkaesque now

 

The free world has a leader out of Kafka, preposterous, unpredictable – well, in fact, we can always tell he will keep doing stupid things – one who is corrupt, immoral, abject, and I need to stop before, I get into

 

-          Metamorphosis https://realinibarzoi.blogspot.com/2025/07/the-metamorphosis-by-franz-kafka.html

 

I have been kicked out of Goodreads – I returned, and I am there as Realini Ionescu, my name, until thy find this, and other texts critical of Orange Woland aka TACO, and then there may be the exile again for me…

 

Now for my standard closing of the note with a question, and invitation – I am on Goodreads as Realini Ionescu, at least for the moment, if I keep on expressing my views on Orange Woland aka TACO, it may be a short-lived presence

Also, maybe you have a good idea on how we could make more than a million dollars with this https://realinibarzoi.blogspot.com/2025/02/is-this-unique-could-it-make-money.html – as it is, this is a unique technique, which we could promote, sell, open the Oscars show with or something and then make lots of money together, if you have the how, I have the product, I just do not know how to get the benefits from it, other than the exercise per se

 

 There is also the small matter of working for AT&T – this huge company asked me to be its Representative for Romania and Bulgaria, on the Calling Card side, which meant sailing into the Black Sea wo meet the US Navy ships, travelling to Sofia, a lot of activity, using my mother’s two bedrooms flat as office and warehouse, all for the grand total of $250, raised after a lot of persuasion to the staggering $400…with retirement ahead, there are no benefits, nothing…it is a longer story, but if you can help get the mastodont to pay some dues, or have an idea how it can happen, let me know

 

As for my role in the Revolution that killed Ceausescu, a smaller Mao, there it is http://realini.blogspot.com/2022/03/realini-in-newsweek-participant-in.html

 

Some favorite quotes from To The Hermitage and other works

 

‘Fiction is infinitely preferable to real life...As long as you avoid the books of Kafka or Beckett, the everlasting plot of fiction has fewer futile experiences than the careless plot of reality...Fiction's people are fuller, deeper, cleverer, more moving than those in real life…Its actions are more intricate, illuminating, noble, profound…There are many more dramas, climaxes, romantic fulfillment, twists, turns, gratified resolutions…Unlike reality, all of this you can experience without leaving the house or even getting out of bed…What's more, books are a form of intelligent human greatness, as stories are a higher order of sense…As random life is to destiny, so stories are to great authors, who provided us with some of the highest pleasures and the most wonderful mystifications we can find…Few stories are greater than Anna Karenina, that wise epic by an often foolish author…’