The trial
by Franz Kafka
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"Someone must have been telling lies about Josef K., he knew he had done nothing wrong but, one morning, he was arrested." From its gripping first sentence onward, this novel exemplifies the term "Kafkaesque"." Its darkly humorous narrative recounts a bank clerk's entrapment - based on an undisclosed charge - in a maze of nonsensical rules and bureaucratic roadblocks. Written in 1914 and published posthumously in 1925, Kafka's engrossing parable about the human condition plunges an isolated individual into an impersonal, illogical system. Josef K.'s ordeals raise provocative, ever-relevant issues related to the role of government and the nature of justice.
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Fiction, Alegorical fiction, Manuscripts, Facsimiles, Trials, Ficción, Procesos criminales, Fiction, psychological, Continental european fiction (fictional works by one author), Psychological fiction, Prisoners, Legal status, laws, Administration of Criminal justice, Moral and ethical aspects, Novela checoslovaca, Continental european drama (dramatic works by one author), Totalitarianism, Germanic literature, English literature, Fiction, general, Literatura checoslovaca, Novela alemana, Literatura alemana, Fiction, dystopian, Fiction, classics, German fiction, German literature, German Short stories, Deutschunterricht, Literature, Formas y generos literarios, Novelas, Alemania, Literatura, Fiction, absurdist, German language, Readers, Adaptations, Prozess (Kafka, Franz), Kafka, Franz, 1883-1924. Prozess, Trials--fiction, Procesos, Alegorías, Pt2621.a26 p713 1998, 833/.912, Large type booksPeople
Franz Kafka (1883-1924), Josef K, Leni, Mrs. Grubach, Frau Grubach, Titorelli, Fräulein Bürstner, Fräulein Montag, Uncle Karl, Herr Huld, Vice-PresidentPlaces
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Early 20th century, 1920's, 20th century, Siglo XXShowing 11 featured editions. View all 351 editions?
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Byzantine and claustrophobic novel of a man arrested by the secret police and charged with an unspecified crime. Unable to defend himself and disorientated by the legal process at work around him the man soon becomes apathetic and acquiescent, accepting his eventual sentence as inevitable.
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