925 pages
English language
Published Jan. 6, 1976 by Secker & Warburg/Octopus.
America ; The castle ; Metamorphosis ; In the penalsettlement ; The Great Wall of China ; Investigations of a dog ; Letter to his father ; The diaries 1910-23
Franz Kafka: The trial (1976, Secker & Warburg/Octopus)
925 pages
English language
Published Jan. 6, 1976 by Secker & Warburg/Octopus.
Written in 1914 but not published until 1925, a year after Kafka’s death, The Trial is the terrifying tale of Josef K., a respectable bank officer who is suddenly and inexplicably arrested and must defend himself against a charge about which he can get no information. Whether read as an existential tale, a parable, or a prophecy of the excesses of modern bureaucracy wedded to the madness of totalitarianism, The Trial has resonated with chilling truth for generations of readers.