![]() During that time it has been considered a literary classic, it has been studied and debated, it has been included in Le Monde’s 100 Books of the Century and it was voted the Second Best German Novel of the Twentieth Century. The Trial was written over 100 years ago and published over 90 years ago. Published the year after the author’s death, but written ten years earlier, The Trial is the most acclaimed of Kafka’s three novels, and is both a haunting meditation on freedom and the powerlessness of the individual in the face of state power, and an ominous pre-figuration of the totalitarian excesses of the twentieth century. finds his life taken over by the opaque bureaucratic procedures and is tormented by the psychological pressures exerted by his legal nightmare. Although he never comes to know the particulars of his case, Josef K. ![]() He is told that he will be set free, but must make regular appearances at a court in the attic of a tenement building while his trial proceeds. is suddenly arrested by mysterious agents for an unspecified crime. On his thirtieth birthday, the bank clerk Josef K. Released – 22nd March 2018 (First ed 1925) ![]()
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