The Trial (Oxford World's Classics (Audio))
by Franz Kafka
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- ISBN 10
- 1480527807
- ISBN 13
- 9781480527805
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About This Item
'Someone must have been telling tales about Josef K., for one morning, without having done anything wrong, he was arrested.' A successful professional man wakes up one morning to find himself under arrest for an offence which is never explained. The mysterious court which conducts his trial is outwardly co-operative, but capable of horrific violence. Faced with this ambiguous authority, Josef K. gradually succumbs to its psychological pressure. He consults various advisers without escaping his fate. Was there some way out that he failed to see? Kafka's unfinished novel has been read as a study of political power, a pessimistic religious parable, or a crime novel where the accused man is himself the problem. One of the iconic figures of modern world literature, Kafka writes about universal problems of guilt, responsibility, and freedom; he offers no solutions, but provokes his listeners to arrive at meanings of their own. This new edition includes the fragmentary chapters that were omitted from the main text, in a translation that is both natural and exact, and an introduction that illuminates the novel and its author.
Synopsis
It is the fate and perhaps the greatness of that work that it offers everything and confirms nothing' Albert CamusThe 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.
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- Janson Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
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- Title
- The Trial (Oxford World's Classics (Audio))
- Author
- Franz Kafka
- Format/Binding
- CD Brilliance Audio; Unabridged edition (July 1, 2013)
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Unknown
- ISBN 10
- 1480527807
- ISBN 13
- 9781480527805
- Publisher
- Brilliance Audio; Unabridged edition (July 1, 2013)
- Date Published
- July 1, 2013
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