The Trial

by Franz Kafka; (Translators)Douglas Scott & Chris Waller (Author)

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In Kafka’s powerful and disturbing novel, an innocent man is arrested and repeatedly interrogated for a crime that is never ever explained.

On the morning of his thirtieth birthday, a young bank official named Joseph K is arrested although he has done nothing wrong and is never told what he’s been charged with. The Trial is the chronicle of his fight to prove his innocence, of his struggles and encounters with the invisible Law and the untouchable Court where he must make regular visits. It is an account, ultimately, of state-induced self-destruction presenting in a nightmarish scenario the persecution of the outsider and the incomprehensible machinations of the state. Using the power of simple, straightforward language Kafka draws the reader into this bleak and frightening world so that we too experience the fears, uncertainties and tragedy of Joseph K.

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Publisher Brains & Noble

Publication date June 13, 2026

Condition new

Author Franz Kafka; (Translators)Douglas Scott & Chris Waller

Interior Black_white

Item model number BN-68730

Category Fiction