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daily-jstor-org-9924		Franz Kafka's The Trial—It's Funny Because It's True | JSTOR Daily			.html	text/html	2693	180	67	Franz Kafka's The Trial—It's Funny Because It's True | JSTOR Daily The philosopher Hannah Arendt, for instance, wrote in her well-known essay on Kafka: "In spite of the confirmation of more recent times that Kafka's nightmare of a world was a real possibility whose actuality surpassed even the atrocities he describes, we still experience in reading his novels and stories a very definite feeling of unreality." For Arendt, this impression of unreality derives from K.'s internalization of a vague feeling of guilt. Maybe Werckmeister is right about the political motives of critics like Arendt, but what about the plunging sense of unease—like a feeling of falling—that no one can quite seem to shake when they first encounter Kafka's stories? I'm here to suggest, following Werckmeister, that this feeling results from the fact that Kafka's stories, despite their bizarre premises, are unnervingly real. Time and Reality in Kafka's The Trial and The Castle	./cache/daily-jstor-org-9924.html	./txt/daily-jstor-org-9924.txt