ehh i'm 50/50 on the guy. During our first story from him I connected the dots about what he wrote about, the idea that the door keeper said there were more doors and more keepers that he couldn't take it either, like it was sickening to him, the idea he was talking about bureaucracies just made sense.
Then from last year I knew Max Weber was still around during Kafka's period, and I knew Weber was big on these burgeoning bureucracies. Then came Metamorphosis and the Penal Colony, same ideas with different spins.
After the first reading we started talking about Kafka's life because he's writing about his life in these books. Sure enough, his job entailed about being in a burecracy.
With Kafka we just read the background on him of when he wrote such and such.
