The Trial
Franz Kafka author Edwin Muir translator Willa Muir translator Philippe Sands editor
Format:Paperback
Publisher:Vintage Publishing
Published:9th Apr '01
Should be back in stock very soon
The classic translation of Kafka's great work of psychological horror
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.
‘It is not necessary to accept everything as true, one must only accept it as necessary’
Rediscover Kafka's classic work of psychological horror.
The Trial is 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 insanity of twentieth-century totalitarianism has resonated with readers for generations.
WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY PHILLIPE SANDS
It is the fate and perhaps the greatness of that work that it offers everything and confirms nothing -- Albert Camus
The Dante of the Twentieth Century -- W. H. Auden
No other voice has borne truer witness to the dark of our times -- George Steiner
ISBN: 9780099428640
Dimensions: 198mm x 129mm x 14mm
Weight: 162g
224 pages