Franz Kafka’s “the trial"

[Monty Cantsin]

In Franz Kafka’s “The Trial’ there’s a chapter were he goes the cathedral and discusses with a prist the nature of the law using a fable that is prefaced to law books. My question is thus, the fable about the door keeper and the man from the country trying to gain access to the door of the law, was this invented by Kafka or is it sourced from somewhere and he merely goes through the hermeneutics of it?

[rioters bloc]

no idea. but i'm pretty sure he invented it.

regardless, the trial is one of my favourites. awesome read.

[Monty Cantsin]

If anyone could answer me with certainty that would be cool.

this has some interesting stuff in it-
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Trial

so Kafka ripped off Dostoevsky... and Max Brod didnt know how to order the chapters in the trial so he just guessed...