One morning, without warning or explanation, Joseph K. finds himself under arrest. He has committed no crime — or at least none he is aware of — and the nature of the charge against him is never disclosed. He is released, but the nightmare does not end: he must appear before the court again and again, each visit more maddening than the last, nothing ever resolved, nothing ever made clear. As the proceedings drag on, the ordinary rhythms of his life — his job at a bank, his relationships with his landlady and the young woman next door — begin to unravel. Kafka’s The Trial is a terrifying psychological descent into a world of faceless authority and creeping dread, in which one man’s attempts to assert control over his own fate serve only to hasten his excruciating undoing.
ISBN 13: 9780241372562
Author: Franz Kafka
