I just watched Orson Welles' adaptation of the novel, though I have not read the novel itself, and I found it completely inscrutable. I found the scenes and conversations which, on the face of them, often seem so random and strange as to seemingly demand some kind of metaphorical/subtextual interpretation dull and frustrating, because it seemed like no interpretation could possibly be given. It was all too vague and incomprehensible.

And while I think the strangeness of the events and are partly the point in itself, nevertheless, clearly some meaning is supposed to be ascribed to all this and I have no idea what it would be other than a critique of bureaucracy, but that doesn't address the sexual aspect of the film, nor the so many bizarre conversations in the film.

Wikipedia tells me no one's been able to agree on the proper interpretation of this thing.

Did you enjoy the novel in spite of it being incomprehensible? Or did you not find it incomprehensible?