The Trial - (Everyman's Library Contemporary Classics) by Franz Kafka (Hardcover)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br>The story of the indictment, trial and reckoning of Joseph K.<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><p>The story of the mysterious indictment, trial, and reckoning forced upon Joseph K. in Franz Kafka's <i>The Trial</i> is one of the twentieth century's master parables, reflecting the central spiritual crises of modern life. Kafka's method-one that has influenced, in some way, almost every writer of substance who followed him-was to render the absurd and the terrifying convincing by a scrupulous, hyperreal matter-of-factness of tone and treatment. He thereby imparted to his work a level of seriousness normally associated with civilization's most cherished poems and religious texts.</p><p> </p><p>Translated by Willa and Edwin Muir</p><p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br>"This short novel has passed into far more than classical literary status . . . Countless are those who have not read it but who are familiar with its main outline and situations . . . In more than one hundred languages, the epithet 'kafkaesque' attaches to the constants of inhumanity and absurdity in our times . . . In this diffusion of the kafkaesque into so many recesses of our private and public existence, <i>The Trial</i> plays a commanding role." <br>-from the Introduction by George Steiner<br><p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br>Franz Kafka was born in Prague in 1883 and died of tuberculosis in a sanatorium near Vienna in 1924. After earning a law degree in 1906, he worked for most of his adult life at the Worker's Accident Insurance Institute in Prague. Only a small portion of Kafka's writings were published during his lifetime. He left instructions for his friend and literary executor Max Brod to destroy all of his unpublished work after his death, instructions Brod famously ignored.
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