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Overview
This disturbing and vastly influential novel has been interpreted on many levels of structure and symbol; but most commentators agree that the book explores the themes of guilt, anxiety, and moral impotency in the face of some ambiguous force. Joseph K. is an employee in a bank, a man without particular qualities or abilities. He could be anyone, and in some ways he is everyone. His inconsequence makes doubly strange his arrest by the officer of the court in the large city where K. lives. He tries in vain to discover how he has aroused the suspicion of the court. His honesty is conventional; his sins, with Elsa the waitress, are conventional; and he has no striking or dangerous ambitions. He can only ask questions, and receives no answers that clarify the strange world of courts and court functionaries in which he is compelled to wander. The plight of Joseph K., consumed by guilt and condemned for a crime he does not understand by a court with which he cannot communicate, is a profound and disturbing image of man in the modern world. There are no formal charges, no procedures, and little information to guide the defendant. One of the most unsettling aspects of the novel is the continual juxtaposition of alternative hypotheses, multiple explanations, different interpretations of cause and effect, and the uncertainty it breeds. The whole rational structure of the world is undermined.
Product Details
ISBN-13: | 9789355845061 |
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Publisher: | True Sign Publishing House |
Publication date: | 09/05/2021 |
Pages: | 162 |
Sales rank: | 713,923 |
Product dimensions: | 5.50(w) x 8.50(h) x 0.50(d) |
About the Author
Franz Kafka (1883-1924) was a primarily German-speaking Bohemian author, known for his impressive fusion of realism and fantasy in his work. Despite his commendable writing abilities, Kafka worked as a lawyer for most of his life and wrote in his free time. Though most of Kafka’s literary acclaim was gained postmortem, he earned a respected legacy and now is regarded as a major literary figure of the 20th century.
Date of Birth:
July 3, 1883Date of Death:
June 3, 1924Place of Birth:
Prague, Austria-HungaryPlace of Death:
Vienna, AustriaEducation:
German elementary and secondary schools. Graduated from German Charles-Ferdinand University of Prague.Table of Contents
Introduction | vii | |
Chapter 11 | ||
The Arrest | ||
Conversation with Frau Grubach | ||
Then Fraulein Burstner | ||
Chapter 231 | ||
First Interrogation | ||
Chapter 349 | ||
In the Empty Courtroom | ||
The Student | ||
The Offices | ||
Chapter 474 | ||
Fraulein Burstner's Friend | ||
Chapter 583 | ||
The Whipper | ||
Chapter 691 | ||
K.'s Uncle | ||
Leni | ||
Chapter 7113 | ||
Lawyer | ||
Manufacturer | ||
Painter | ||
Chapter 8166 | ||
Block, the Tradesman | ||
Dismissal of the Lawyer | ||
Chapter 9197 | ||
In the Cathedral | ||
Chapter 10223 | ||
The End | ||
Appendix I | The Unfinished Chapters | |
On the Way to Elsa | 233 | |
Journey to His Mother | 235 | |
Prosecuting Counsel | 239 | |
The House | 245 | |
Conflict with the Assistant Manager | 250 | |
A Fragment | 256 | |
Appendix II | The Passages Delected by the Author | 257 |
Appendix III | Postscripts | |
To the First Edition (1925) | 264 | |
To the Second Edition (1935) | 272 | |
To the Third Edition (1946) | 274 | |
Appendix IV | Excerpts from Kafka's Diaries | 275 |
What People are Saying About This
Albert Camus
We are taken to the limits of human thought. Indeed, everything in this work is, in the true sense, essential. It states the problem of the absurd in its entirety.
W.H. Auden
Had one to name the author who comes nearest to bearing the same kind of relation to our age as Dante, Shakespeare, and Goethe bore to theirs, Kafka is the first one would think of.
Walter Abish
An accomplishment of the highest order one that will honor Kafka, perhaps the most singular and compelling writer of our time, far into the 21st century.
Author of How German Is It
Introduction
This short novel has passed into far more than classical literary status...In more than 100 languages, the epithet 'kafkaesque' attaches to the central images, to the constants of inhumanity and absurdity in our times...In this diffusion of the kafkaesque into so many recesses of our private and public existence, The Trial plays a commanding role.
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