Kafka for Beginners

Kafka for Beginners unfolds inside a prison of the Ozymandian Empire — an allegorical dystopia named after Shelley’s timeless warning about the futile vanity of power. In this bleak empire, the official truth — even sung in the national anthem — is that 2 + 2 = 5. Our hero, The Poet, is arrested after the Imperial Ministry of Redemption (the regime’s brutal secret police) hacks his computer and uncovers his private refusal to believe the lie. For this “crime,” he’s thrown into a remote punishment cell, enduring relentless psychological and physical torture. As the Poet battles isolation, cruelty, and the seductive promises of “freedom” in exchange for compliance, one question looms: Will he betray his truth — or die defending it?