Does _The Trial_ fall under any of the debated rubrics that
are being discussed -- noir, crime, hard-boiled (not much
slang in the novel, but a lot of violence!) I read somewhere
that Kafka enjoyed popular fiction, and wondered if he might
have been influenced by late nineteenth-century detective
fiction. His themes of alienation and the quest for meaning
in a bureaucratic, corrupt modern world gibe with noir, and
his own clear, declarative sentences precede the Black Mask
style pioneered by Hammett.
Conversely, are there crime fiction writers of the 30's-50's
who have admitted being influenced by Kafka?
Mike
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