Completing the Circle of Enlightenment – or Now THIS is More Like It Department:
Your astute appraisal has much merit, Jeh, especially for those of us previously culturally-deprived culprits without your knowledge and exposure (the bit about the chapters being printed in the wrong order was particularly intriguing).
As to that, what you say kinda makes one wonder if Kafka has been either unfairly neglected, grossly misunderstood or both by generations of readers who haven’t bothered to truly investigate (and interpret for themselves) exactly what makes this author still so compelling even onto the present …