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"The Trial" is funny. If you read it as a comedy, it's not only more entertaining, it's far more frightening. Dark Comedy. The moral of the story, to elaborate a cliche', is that it's only futile to resist when you have no idea what you're resisting. We never know what K did wrong, and neither did he, and the whole thing is just an absurd mystery that trips itself up sentence by sentence. There are banana peels strewn all over this book and the slapstick is existential rather than vaudevillian. It's like an instructional cartoon shown in purgatory.