- Paperback: 256 pages
- Publisher: Vintage Classics (Oct 25 2005)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0099428644
- ISBN-13: 978-0099428640
- Product Dimensions: 13 x 1.3 x 19.8 cm
- Shipping Weight: 159 g
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #1,029,650 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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"Kafka's 'legalese' is alchemically fused with a prose of great verve and intense readability."
--James Rolleston, professor of Germanic languages and literatures, Duke University
"Breon Mitchell's translation is an accomplishment of the highest order that will honor Kafka far into the twenty-first century."
--Walter Abish, author of How German Is It
--James Rolleston, professor of Germanic languages and literatures, Duke University
"Breon Mitchell's translation is an accomplishment of the highest order that will honor Kafka far into the twenty-first century."
--Walter Abish, author of How German Is It
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Written in 1914, The Trial is the terrifying tale of Josef K., a respectable bank officer who is suddenly arrested and must defend himself against a charge about which he can get no information. Kafka’s nightmare has resonated with chilling truth for generations of readers.
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Kafka's The Trial, Nov 19 2007
By J. Taylor "rerum cognoscere causas" - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: The Trial (Paperback)
Reading Franz Kafka makes you feel like you are living in a dream - usually a nightmare. The Trial follows Joseph K for a year; the man is accused, apparently without cause, of a crime. He never discovers what crime.As K struggles to prove his innocence in a secret and subjective court, Kafka reveals K's psychological deterioration. The controlled banker is slowly transformed into a nervous and unstable defendant.
The continual presence of the 'case' also brings out K's flaws. Instead of confident, he is exposed as arrogant. Instead of ambitious, he is self-centred. He coldly uses people. He becomes isolated.
In the end K surrenders to the situation's senselessness.
The Trial confronts humanity's helplessness by investigating the nature of torture. By depicting fear. Kafka leaves us hoping for some higher power; something or someone to make life meaningful.
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hauntingly prescient, Jun 9 2008
By Aquinas "summa" - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: The Trial (Paperback)
Kafka depicts a terrifying world, a man lost in a world of utter unintelligibility - it is the horror story of the 20th century, where man has sought to negate both his own intelligibility and that of the world. Kafka pre-empts the regimes of Stalin, Hitler and all the other crazies of the 20th Century.
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