I didn't know of Kafka before I became aware of his pen and I have been grateful for the opportunity to read a couple of his novels as a form of justification for owning the pen - I am trying to ensure that I have read at least one novel of each of the authors for whom I have a pen but my pen collecting is going a little quicker than my reading I am ashamed to admit! The Trial’ details the story of an innocent man who is frustrated by the state’s criminal process to such a degree that within a year he is accepting of his murder as his only form of escape, the inevitability of the journey is as unsettling to read as it appears to be for the victim, this is a common theme in his novels. His genre was definitely focused on dystopian themes - ‘ The Metamorphosis’ (the book on which the pen is themed) is the story of a travelling salesman who wakes up one morning and has transformed in to a cockroach. just a regular Monday morning then. He was largely unpublished during his lifetime and requested that his work be destroyed on his deathbed – fortunately, this didn’t happen. Kafka was a Czech national who was born in 1883 in Prague and died in Vienna in 1924 of tuberculosis. Including the Imperial Dragon (which not everyone does) it was the 14 th pen in the series and was produced with a limited Edition of 18,500 pens. Montblanc issued their tribute to Kafka in 2004.
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