num_pages: 255
description: 'No other voice has borne truer witness to the dark of our times. . . THE TRIAL exhibits the classic model of the terror state. It prefigures the furtive sadism, the hysteria which totalitarianism insinuates into private and sexual life, the faceless boredom of the killers. The labyrinth of his meanings opens out, at its secret, difficult exits, to the high roads of modern sensibility, to what is most urgent and relevant in our condition' George Steiner
language: English
title: The Trial
titlecomplete: The Trial
characters: Willem, Albert K., Rudi Block, Herr Huld, Titorelli, Franz, Fräulein Elsa, Josef K., Erna K., Frau Grubach, Karl K., Fräulein Bürstner, Leni
genres: Fiction, Philosophy, German Literature, Literature, Czech Literature, Classics, Novels, 20th Century, Literary Fiction, Dystopia
ratings_count: 306653
awards: awardedAt: 915177600000
name: Helen and Kurt Wolff Translator's Prize
category: Breon Mitchell
publisher: Minerva