Response to Camille's First Blog post on 8/24

Camille's blog post from late August has really stood out to me every time I picked up the book. Ever since I read her blog post, I have really thought about the eyes and the front cover, so I did a little research on all of the published copies of The Trial. Literally every single copy has something to do with the connotation of eyes or a magnifying glass. In any mystery based novel, though, you're going to employ something along the lines of these covers. There has got to be more meaning behind it though.

In my blog post today, I spoke about how everyone in the novel gives off this feeling that they know what's going on, and I think it speaks volumes on the cover of the book. It's like all of the blue eyes represent the superficial characters and how they know what's going on, and then the yellow eye represents K. and his inability to control his situation. I don't want to say that Kafka chose these covers on purpose, because he didn't, but I think it definitely has something to do with the plot and Kafka's overall beliefs on society.

Here are some of the covers that I found: