
The Trial : Newly translated and Annotated
by Franz Kafka
Title:
The Trial : Newly translated and Annotated
Author:
Franz Kafka
Series (if any):
Evergreens
Format:
Paperback
Number of pages:
256 pages
Publisher:
Bloomsbury Publishing plc
ISBN-13:
9781847497192
EAN:
9781847497192
Classifications:
Classic and Biographical
Weight (g):
318
Dimensions (mm):
129 x 197 x 17
Publication Country:
United Kingdom
Language:
English
Condition:
New
Description
On his thirtieth birthday, the bank clerk Josef K. is suddenly arrested by mysterious agents for an unspecified crime. He is told that he will be set free, but must make regular appearances at a court in the attic of a tenement building while his trial proceeds. Although he never comes to know the particulars of his case, Josef K. finds his life taken over by the opaque bureaucratic procedures and is tormented by the psychological pressures exerted by his legal nightmare.Published the year after the author's death, but written ten years earlier, The Trial is the most acclaimed of Kafka's three novels, and is both a haunting meditation on freedom and the powerlessness of the individual in the face of state power, and an ominous prefiguration of the totalitarian excesses of the twentieth century.






























