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The Trial
Contributor(s): Kafka, Franz (Author)

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 ISBN:     ISBN-13: 9798674346647
Publisher: Independently Published
OUR PRICE: $8.99  

Binding Type: Paperback - See All Available Formats & Editions
Published: August 2020
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BISAC Categories:
- Law | Civil Law
Physical Information: 0.41" H x 5.98" W x 9.02" L (0.6 lbs) 180 pages
 
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Franz Kafka, (born July 3, 1883, Prague, Bohemia, Austria-Hungary now in Czech Republic]-died June 3, 1924, Kierling, near Vienna, Austria), German-language writer of visionary fiction whose works-especially the novel Der Prozess (1925; The Trial) and the story Die Verwandlung (1915; The Metamorphosis)-express the anxieties and alienation felt by many in 20th-century Europe and North America. Franz Kafka, the son of Julie L wy and Hermann Kafka, a merchant, was born into a prosperous middle-class Jewish family. The Trial, German Der Prozess, novel by visionary German-language writer Franz Kafka, originally published posthumously in 1925. One of Kafka's major works, and perhaps his most pessimistic, this surreal story of a young man who finds himself caught up in the mindless bureaucracy of the law has become synonymous with the anxieties and sense of alienation of the modern age and with an ordinary person's struggle against an unreasoning and unreasonable authority. It is often considered to be an imaginative anticipation of totalitarianism. The narrative emerges from the book's opening sentence: "Somebody must have slandered Joseph K., for one morning, without having done anything wrong, he was arrested." It is K.'s 30th birthday, and a pair of guards have arrived at his boardinghouse to inform him that he is under arrest. He is shortly summoned before the inspector, who is in the bedroom of another tenant. The inspector does not know what the charges are but tells K. that he is free to continue living his life as usual. K. goes to the bank where he works and is later told that a series of hearings will be taking place on Sundays. K. is not informed of the time that he is expected to appear, but he goes on Sunday morning to the address he was given, which proves to be that of a large tenement building. Eventually a washerwoman directs him to a crowded meeting hall, where the examining magistrate scolds K. for being late. K. energetically protests his treatment and denounces the corruption of the system. As he is leaving, the magistrate tells him that he has damaged his case by declining to participate in the hearing. No further summonses arrive, so K. returns to the building the following Sunday morning only to be told by the washerwoman that court is not in session. Her husband is the court usher, and he offers to show K. the law court offices. While there K. begins to feel extremely fatigued, but after two officials help him outside, he immediately recovers. A few days later, as he is leaving work, K. hears a sound coming from a storeroom, and inside it he finds the guards who arrested him being flogged because of his complaints about them to the magistrate. An uncle of K.'s later takes him to the defense lawyer Dr. Huld. Although Huld is in bed because of a heart condition, he is very interested in taking on K. as a client. The chief clerk of the court emerges from a dark corner of the room, and he and Huld discuss the case. Huld's caretaker, Leni, lures K. from the room and seduces him. She also tells him that he is being too stubborn and that he must confess his guilt. K.'s uncle is furious over his inattention to his case.
 
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