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The Trial
Franz Kafka
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Description for The Trial
Paperback. Series: Penguin Modern Classics. Num Pages: 208 pages. BIC Classification: FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 130 x 198 x 19. Weight in Grams: 162.
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 ... Read more
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 ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Penguin Books Ltd
Condition
New
Series
Penguin Modern Classics
Number of Pages
208
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780241197790
SKU
9780241197790
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About Franz Kafka
Franz Kafka (Author) Franz Kafka (1883-1924) was born of Jewish parents in Prague. Several of his story collections were published in his lifetime and his novels, The Trial, The Castle, and Amerika, were published posthumously by his editor Max Brod.
Reviews for The Trial
The Dante of the Twentieth Century
W. H. Auden This compelling, prophetic novel anticipates the insanity of modern bureaucracy and the coming of totalitarianism
The Daily Telegraph It is the fate and perhaps the greatness of that work that it offers everything and confirms nothing
Albert Camus It was Kafka who made me understand that one can ... Read more
W. H. Auden This compelling, prophetic novel anticipates the insanity of modern bureaucracy and the coming of totalitarianism
The Daily Telegraph It is the fate and perhaps the greatness of that work that it offers everything and confirms nothing
Albert Camus It was Kafka who made me understand that one can ... Read more