Der Proceß
Byzantine and claustrophobic novel of a man arrested by the secret police and charged with an unspecified crime. Unable to defend himself and disorientated by the legal process at work around him the man soon becomes apathetic and acquiescent, accepting his eventual sentence as inevitable.
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What Hacker News says
- > I had no idea code bodies have been doing this... incredible. Requiring private individuals to pay a private entity for access to the law under which they are bound is unconscionable, to say the least.
In particular for people who are able to understand German, I recommend reading "Franz Kafka - Vor dem Gesetz" (Türhüterparabel - gatekeeper parable):
> https://gutenberg.spiegel.de/buch/erzahlungen-i-9763/16
English translation:
> http://www.kafka-online.info/before-the-law.html
Here a narrated version (German):
> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=77JLmS6diaE
This parable is also part of the novel fragment "Der Proceß" (The Trial) by Franz Kafka - a novel that I can also highly recommend:
> https://gutenberg.spiegel.de/buch/der-prozess-9771/1
English translation:
- > No need to hack the law. Our FOSS code is constitutionally protected free speech and I would defend on those grounds.
"Der Proceß" [The Trial] by Franz Kafka is just a realistic description of the court system (Franz Kafka studied law).
- > But this is fully automated bureaucracy. Except instead of having well known rules or human bureaucrats we can confront
Reminds me of a novel that was written over 100 years ago:
> The Trial (German: Der Process,[1] later Der Proceß, Der Prozeß and Der Prozess) is a novel written by Franz Kafka between 1914 and 1915 and published posthumously in 1925. One of his best-known works, it tells the story of Josef K., a man arrested and prosecuted by a remote, inaccessible authority, with the nature of his crime revealed neither to him nor to the reader.
