Trial (Kafka - Oxford ed.)

Author: Franz Kafka

Translator: Mike Mitchell

ISBN: 9780199238293

Binding: paperback

Section: Fiction

"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?

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.