Rereading The Trial: A Search for Contemporary Legal Values
Journal: English Language and Literature Studies
Year: 2024

The novel The Trial, one of Kafka&amp;rsquo;s classic masterpieces, is rich in legal elements and the author&amp;rsquo;s reflections on the spirit of law. Although the novel explores the law of the Austro-Hungarian Empire in the twentieth century, the excavation of the inherent shortcomings of the law is still worth exploring. Firstly, the judicial injustice in the novel is analyzed to highlight the significance of procedural justice; secondly, the religious theology Kafka believes in and the un