The Trial

Author: Franz Kafka

Stock information

General Fields

  • : $22.99 AUD
  • : 9780099428640
  • : Random House UK
  • : VINTAGE ARROW - MASS MARKET
  • :
  • : 0.16
  • : April 2001
  • : 198mm X 130mm X 15mm
  • :
  • : 22.99
  • :
  • :
  • :
  • : books

Special Fields

  • :
  • :
  • : Franz Kafka
  • : Vintage Classics Ser.
  • : Paperback
  • : 912
  • :
  • : English
  • : 833.912
  • :
  • :
  • :
  • :
  • :
  • :
  • :
  • :
  • :
  • :
Barcode 9780099428640
9780099428640

Description

The terrifying tale of Joseph K, a respectable functionary in a bank, who is suddenly arrested and must defend his innocence against a charge about which he can get no information. A nightmare vision of the excesses of modern bureaucracy wedded to the mad agendas of twentieth-century totalitarian regimes.

Promotion info

'It is the fate and perhaps the greatness of that work that it offers everything and confirms nothing' Albert Camus 20050121

Reviews

"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

Author description

Franz Kafka (1883-1924) was born into a Jewish family in Prague. In 1906 he received a doctorate in jurisprudence, and for many years he worked a tedious job as a civil service lawyer investigating claims at the state Worker's Accident Insurance Institute. He never married, and published only a few slim volumes of stories during his lifetime. Meditation, a collection of sketches, appeared in 1912; The Stoker: A Fragment in 1913; The Metamorphosis in 1915; The Judgement in 1916; In the Penal Colony in 1919; and A Country Doctor in 1920. The great novels were not published until after his death from tuberculosis: America, The Trial, and The Castle.