Whilst I agree with this, I'd take it further: engaging with a system (it could be a bureaucracy, office culture, a manipulative family) exactly as is expected will destroy a person as it did K.
It might have destroyed K, bug not Kafka himself. Kafka himself was an incredible successful lawyer, who won every single insurance case for his important employer. He was also a good sportsman, ate very healthy and had huge fun provoking his hated father. It's all a very elaborate dark comedy.
He was always on the winning side of the bureaucratic nightmares, that's why he had so much fun writing about it.
He was always on the winning side of the bureaucratic nightmares, that's why he had so much fun writing about it.