296 pages
English language
Published Jan. 6, 1937 by A. A. Knopf.
Franz Kafka: The trial (1937, A. A. Knopf)
296 pages
English language
Published Jan. 6, 1937 by A. A. Knopf.
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.