The Trial

Informationen zum Autor Franz Kafka (1883-1924) was born of Jewish parents in Prague. Several of his story collections were published in his lifetime and his novels, The Trial , The Castle and Amerika , were published posthumously by his editor Max Brod. Klappentext A terrifying psychological trip into the life of one Joseph K.! an ordinary man who wakes up one day to find himself accused of a crime he did not commit! a crime whose nature is never revealed to him. Once arrested! he is released! but must report to court on a regular basis - an event that proves maddening! as nothing is ever resolved. As he grows more uncertain of his fate! his personal life - including work at a bank and his relations with his landlady and a young woman who lives next door - becomes increasingly unpredictable. As K. tries to gain control! he succeeds only in accelerating his own excruciating downward spiral. Zusammenfassung A terrifying psychological trip into the life of one Joseph K.! an ordinary man who wakes up one day to find himself accused of a crime he did not commit! a crime whose nature is never revealed to him. Once arrested! he is released! but must report to court on a regular basis - an event that proves maddening! as nothing is ever resolved. As he grows more uncertain of his fate! his personal life - including work at a bank and his relations with his landlady and a young woman who lives next door - becomes increasingly unpredictable. As K. tries to gain control! he succeeds only in accelerating his own excruciating downward spiral.

Product details

• Authors: Franz Kafka, Kafka Franz
• Assisted by: Idris Parry (Introduction), Parry Idris (Introduction), Idris Parry (Translation), Parry Idris (Translation)
• Publisher: Penguin Books Uk
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 02.07.2015
• EAN: 9780241197790
• ISBN: 978-0-241-19779-0
• No. of pages: 208
• Dimensions: 129 mm x 198 mm x 12 mm
• Series: Penguin Classics; Modern Classics; Penguin Modern Classics; Penguin Popular Classics; Penguin Modern Classics; Penguin Classics; Modern Classics
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; FICTION / Political, FICTION / Psychological, FICTION / Dystopian, Fiction in translation, FICTION / Absurdist, Narrative theme: Interior life, Narrative theme: Politics, Dystopian and utopian fiction, Metaphysical / philosophical fiction