The trial that lead to The Trial

"The persuasiveness of Kafka's narratives is almost entirely an effect of his style, which native German-speakers will assure us is well-nigh unique in German literature for its simplicity, control and directness. The polished stuff through which these narratives are conveyed is as resistant and as transparent as glass, and the voice that speaks over it is at once thoroughly jaded and irresistibly compelling. Oneiric though it appears, this is the world not of Kafka's sleeping but of our waking, and the fascinated unease we experience in the face of it springs from the very fact of our recognition of it as impossible and yet wholly real."

Ler aqui: http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2011/jan/15/john-banville-kafka-trial-rereading