The trial
Corona in the U.S. | K. said, “I could make good use of someone who could give me advice.” “Yes, but if I’m to give you advice I’ll have to know what it’s all about,” said Miss Bürstner. “That’s exactly the problem,” said K., “I don’t know that myself.” Performance was not the issue in Modelo’s ignoble severing of ties to its U.S. importer, the Gambrinus Company. But what was the reason? You might be forgiven for thinking that Kafka could have written this parable on the provisionality of relations, the whimsy of power, the absurdity of life. But fear not. Or perhaps fear plenty. Because Kafka had nothing to do with it.
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