It would be so easy to try and draw themes of politics and society from this book, to discover it was trying to tell you something profound and of great importence. They may, or probably weren't, inentional. But, to really fully experience this book, I found it best to let all those underlying messages go unobserved. They're ties back to the real world, and to experience this novel you need to forget all that, and just becomce totally emersed in Kafka's surreal universe.

Leave analysis until later, read the book for enjoyment and emersion first. ( )