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Kafka's Parable: Before the Law (Narrated By Orson Wells)
Transcript Below:
Before the law, there stands a God. A man comes from the country, begging admittance to the law, but the God cannot admit him. Can he hope to enter at a later time?
"That is possible," says the God.
The man tries to peer through the entrance. He has been taught that the law should be accessible to every man.
"Do not attempt to enter without my permission," says the God. "I am very powerful, yet I am the least of all the Gods. From hall to hall, door after door, each God is more powerful than the last."
By the God's permission the man sits down by the side of the door and there he waits. For years, he waits. Everything he has he gives away in the hope of bribing the God, who never fails to say to him, "I take what you give me only so that you will feel that you have not left something undone."
Keeping his watch during the long years, the man has learned to know even the fleas and the God's fur collar, and growing childish in old age, he begs the very fleas to persuade the God to change his mind and allow him to enter. His sight is dimmed, but in the darkness he perceives a radiance streaming immortally from the door of the law. And now, before he dies, all his experience condenses into one question, a question he has never asked. He beckons to the God.
Says the God, "You are insatiable. What is it now?"
Says the man, "Every man strives to attain the law. How is it then that in all these years no one else has ever come here seeking admittance?"
His hearing has failed, so the God yells into his ear, "No one else but you could ever of obtained admittance. No one else could enter this door. This door was intended only for you, and now, I'm going to close it."
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This tale is told during the story called, The Trial. It has been said that the logic of this story is the logic of a dream, of a nightmare.
Before the law, there stands a God. A man comes from the country, begging admittance to the law, but the God cannot admit him. Can he hope to enter at a later time?
"That is possible," says the God.
The man tries to peer through the entrance. He has been taught that the law should be accessible to every man.
"Do not attempt to enter without my permission," says the God. "I am very powerful, yet I am the least of all the Gods. From hall to hall, door after door, each God is more powerful than the last."
By the God's permission the man sits down by the side of the door and there he waits. For years, he waits. Everything he has he gives away in the hope of bribing the God, who never fails to say to him, "I take what you give me only so that you will feel that you have not left something undone."
Keeping his watch during the long years, the man has learned to know even the fleas and the God's fur collar, and growing childish in old age, he begs the very fleas to persuade the God to change his mind and allow him to enter. His sight is dimmed, but in the darkness he perceives a radiance streaming immortally from the door of the law. And now, before he dies, all his experience condenses into one question, a question he has never asked. He beckons to the God.
Says the God, "You are insatiable. What is it now?"
Says the man, "Every man strives to attain the law. How is it then that in all these years no one else has ever come here seeking admittance?"
His hearing has failed, so the God yells into his ear, "No one else but you could ever of obtained admittance. No one else could enter this door. This door was intended only for you, and now, I'm going to close it."
--
This tale is told during the story called, The Trial. It has been said that the logic of this story is the logic of a dream, of a nightmare.
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Thank you so much for posting this!
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Interesting. Thanks for posting. I like me some Orson Wells. But according to the priest's commentary in The Trial, it will be impossible for the guard to shut the door, even though he says that he's going to do so. So having an illustration of a closed door at the end arguably changes the end of the story. (Also, "guard" is mistakenly rendered as "God" in the transcript above.)
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