A Kafkaesque Estate
If Franz Kafka were writing a short story about an estate, it would undoubtedly have featured his signature themes of autobiographic reflections, alienation, and betrayal while caught in the teeth of a pointless and irrational bureaucratic nightmare.
Example: You wake up and discover that you’ve become a monstrous insect. You find yourself being interrogated. You are on trial with your colleagues testifying against you, yet you don’t even know what you are being accused of. It is bleak, surreal, and goes downhill from there. Ahh, good times with Kafka.
Little did Kafka realize that his actual estate was going to resemble one of his own novels. His unfinished work and private letters would be saved, scrutinized, modified, and published for more than 80 years with legal battles over ownership.