The Trial by Franz Kafka
The terrifying tale of Joseph K, a respectable functionary in a bank, who is suddenly arrested and must defend his innocence against a charge about which he can get no information. A nightmare vision of the excesses of modern bureaucracy wedded to the mad agendas of twentieth-century totalitarian regimes.
It is the fate and perhaps the greatness of that work that it offers everything and confirms nothing -- Albert Camus
The Dante of the Twentieth Century -- WH. Auden
No other voice has borne truer witness to the dark of our times -- George Steiner
The Dante of the Twentieth Century -- WH. Auden
No other voice has borne truer witness to the dark of our times -- George Steiner
Franz Kafka (1883–1924) was born into a Jewish family in Prague. In 1906 he received a doctorate in jurisprudence, and for many years he worked a tedious job as a civil service lawyer investigating claims at the State Worker's Accident Insurance Institute. He never married, and published only a few slim volumes of stories during his lifetime. Meditation, a collection of sketches, appeared in 1912; The Stoker: A Fragment in 1913; Metamorphosis in 1915; The Judgement in 1916; In the Penal Colony in 1919; and A Country Doctor in 1920. The great novels were not published until after his death from tuberculosis: America, The Trial and The Castle.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780099428640 |
| ISBN 10 | 0099428644 |
| Title | The Trial |
| Author | Franz Kafka |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Vintage Publishing |
| Year published | 2001-04-09 |
| Number of pages | 224 |
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