The doorkeeper accepts the bribes, but tells the man he only accepts them "so that you do not think you have left anything undone". The man waits by the door for years, bribing the doorkeeper with everything he has. The man asks if he can ever go through, and the doorkeeper says it is possible "but not now ( jetzt aber nicht)". Plot summary "Before the Law" Ī man from the country seeks "the law" and wishes to gain entry to it through an open doorway, but the doorkeeper tells the man that he cannot go through at the present time. The Trial, however, was not published until 1925, after Kafka's death. "Before the Law" was published twice in Kafka's lifetime, first in the 1915 New Year's edition of the independent Jewish weekly Selbstwehr, then in 1919 as part of the collection Ein Landarzt ( A Country Doctor). " Before the Law" (German: "Vor dem Gesetz") is a parable contained in the novel The Trial ( German: Der Prozess), by Franz Kafka.
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