num_pages: 7
description: Josef K, 30, lives in a large town in an unspecified country. He is summonsed to answer a charge and appears in the court room for his trial. Franz Kafka evokes all the reality of trial without any of the specifics in a society that seems to have degraded into chaos: squalid environment, rats, yellow liquid shooting out of a hole in the wall. Guards, claustrophobia, anxiety ? this is a gripping story and an allegory of modern life. This text remains just as relevant a century after it was written. Rupert Degas reads a new translation by David Whiting.
language: English
title: The Trial
titlecomplete: The Trial
characters: Willem, Erna K., Josef K., Fräulein Bürstner, Albert K., Titorelli, Frau Grubach, Leni, Rudi Block, Fräulein Elsa, Karl K., Herr Huld, Franz
genres: Fiction, 20th Century, Czech Literature, Classics, Philosophy, Dystopia, German Literature, Literary Fiction, Literature, Novels
ratings_count: 306421
awards: awardedAt: 915177600000
name: Helen and Kurt Wolff Translator's Prize
category: Breon Mitchell
publisher: Naxos Audiobooks