Czech Republic

The Trial

by Franz Kafka

Society & Class 1925

Summary

Josef K. is arrested one morning and subjected to a legal process whose nature and charges he can never determine. Kafka's second novel, published posthumously, is his most sustained exploration of bureaucratic alienation and existential helplessness.

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Franz Kafka

German-language novelist and short story writer (1883–1924) born in Prague, whose dreamlike, nightmarish fiction gave rise to the adjective "Kafkaesque." He died before most of his major works were published, having asked that they be destroyed.

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1925
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