Trial

by Kafka, Franz

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New York, New York, U.S.A.: Schocken Books, 1987. Spine lean, spine creases, corner bumps, soiling to the book edges, a couple of small stains to the rear cover, and other light shopwear. Text is clean. . Edition Unstated. Trade Paperback. Very Good-/As issued No Jacket.

Book summary

Kafka's exploration of the psychological terror inherent in everyday life is both allegorical and stunningly realistic. A bank employee named Joseph K. is accused of a crime he not only did not commit but doesn't even understand. He is released, but thereafter enslaved to a legal system that requires him to continue to go to court to defend his innocence in a case that is never explained, never resolved. Try though he may to take control of the situation, the hero's life, revealed in all its barrenness, disintegrates not only at the bank where he works but in his relationship with a young woman and with his landlady. Finally, in a last absurd twist, he is executed. Kafka expressed the wish that THE TRIAL never be published, but thanks to the intervention of his literary executor, Max Brod, it appeared posthumously. It is considered a classic of modernist literature, an early existential work that has had enormous influence on most serious 20th-century writers.

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