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A brilliant translation of one of the greatest works of Franz Kafka, author of Metamorphosis, telling the haunting story of a man's desperate search for answers amid his prosecution for an unknown crime A Penguin Classic A terrifying psychological trip into the life of one Joseph K., an ordinary man who wakes up one day to find himself accused of a crime he did not commit, a crime whose nature is never revealed to him. Once arrested, he is released, but must report to court on a regular basis—an event that proves maddening, as nothing is ever resolved. As he grows more uncertain of his fate, his personal life—including work at a bank and his relations with his landlady and a young woman who lives next door—becomes increasingly unpredictable. As K. tries to gain control, he succeeds only in accelerating his own excruciating downward spiral.
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The Trial, Franz Kafka
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- Title
- The Trial
- Language
- English
- Authors
- Franz Kafka
- Publisher
- Penguin Books Ltd (UK)
- Released
- 2024
- Format
- Paperback
- Pages
- 208
- ISBN10
- 0241678897
- ISBN13
- 9780241678893
- Series
- Tags
- Fiction, Classics, German Literature, Society, Guilt, Court, Court Trials, Existentialism, Judges, Absurdity, Franz Kafka, 1883-1924, Bureaucracy, Central European Literature
- First published
- 1925
- Original title
- Der Process
- Rating
- 3.85 out of 5
- Description
- A brilliant translation of one of the greatest works of Franz Kafka, author of Metamorphosis, telling the haunting story of a man's desperate search for answers amid his prosecution for an unknown crime A Penguin Classic A terrifying psychological trip into the life of one Joseph K., an ordinary man who wakes up one day to find himself accused of a crime he did not commit, a crime whose nature is never revealed to him. Once arrested, he is released, but must report to court on a regular basis—an event that proves maddening, as nothing is ever resolved. As he grows more uncertain of his fate, his personal life—including work at a bank and his relations with his landlady and a young woman who lives next door—becomes increasingly unpredictable. As K. tries to gain control, he succeeds only in accelerating his own excruciating downward spiral.