The trial
By: by Franz Kafka ; translation ... by David Wyllie
Contributors: Wyllie, David
Publisher: Tribeca Books
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Place of publication not identified
Language: eng
Number of pages: 158
ISBN-13: 9781612931036
Subjects: Trials; Fiction
Work titles: Prozess
Description: "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.
Notes: Translation of Der prozess.