The Trial by Franz Kafka has climbed one place since last July (2025) and it is now 20th 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, included on the Bokklubben World Library (Norwegian: Verdensbiblioteket) list of The Best 100 Books of All Time – more than five thousand reviews from both lists, and others, are posted on my blog https://realinibarzoi.blogspot.com/2025/09/do-you-have-any-feedback.html and YouTube channel, where the macaws run the show Kafkaesque has become Trumpian today? I wonder…

 

The Trial by Franz Kafka has climbed one place since last July (2025) and it is now 20th 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, included on the Bokklubben World Library (Norwegian: Verdensbiblioteket) list of The Best 100 Books of All Time – more than five thousand reviews from both lists, and others, are posted on my blog https://realinibarzoi.blogspot.com/2025/09/do-you-have-any-feedback.html and YouTube channel, where the macaws run the show

Kafkaesque has become Trumpian today? I wonder…

 

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I have posted a review of The Trial https://realinibarzoi.blogspot.com/2025/07/the-trial-by-franz-kafka-is-in-21st.html and more importantly, I think I have lived in a ‘Kafkaesque’ universe, seeing that Ceausescu was the ruler in these parts until 1989, and even after his demise, it was still an absurd environment…

 

Alas, as I wonder in the first lines, Kafkaesque seems to have mutated into Trumpian, but let me try and say a few words about the ‘subject matter’, The Trial as adapted by Orson Welles: it was in the program last night, on the Cultural Channel of the Public Network Television – we are getting better than America on some counts

Meaning that they attack media outlets there – not that all is smooth sailing here – and they try and blackmail some into cancelling shows the Orange American Psycho https://realinibarzoi.blogspot.com/2026/04/american-psycho-by-bret-easton-ellis.html does not like, such as Jimmy Kimmel

 

Anthony Perkins has the leading role of Josef K., the man that has the officials coming to arrest him for no good (or any) reason, trying to extract bribes – which is now a thing in Trump’s America, where the ‘royal family’ is getting rich using means familiar in the communist regimes – ‘you will not need these clothes’ they say

“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…” https://realinibarzoi.blogspot.com/2025/03/the-kings-english-guide-to-modern-usage.html

 

Magister Ludi Kingsley Amis was not a fan of Franz Kafka, and I am influenced by him, albeit I could say that Kafka is not an author I would choose now, and that is because as mentioned, we lived in the atmosphere, the repressive regime that is described in his books, so there is more than an uncomfortable feeling

Orson Welles has this amusing anecdote about meeting Churchill, maybe it was in Switzerland, and mentioning to the former prime minister that he tires to get some financing form this fellow, and he appreciated the fact that Winston Churchill had recognized him: when they next met, Churchill rose from the chair to salute

 

Citizen Kane https://realinibarzoi.blogspot.com/2025/08/citizen-kane-written-by-herman.html was for quite some time the Number One feature on the lists of Best Films ever made, it is still up there, unless, we witness some serious upheaval, and indeed we do, The British Film Institute has an unknown motion picture in the first place…unknown to this cinephile

 

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