The Trial

By: Franz Kafka

Published April 9th 2001 by Vintage Classics (first published 1925)

Category: Arts

Pages: 255 pages

ISBN: 9780099428640

Description:
Written in 1914 but not published until 1925, a year after Kafka’s death, The Trial is the terrifying tale of Josef K., a respectable bank officer who is suddenly and inexplicably arrested and must defend himself against a charge about which he can get no information. Whether read as an existential tale, a parable, or a prophecy of the excesses of modern bureaucracy wedded to the madness of totalitarianism, The Trial has resonated with chilling truth for generations of readers.