The Trial: New Translation (Alma Classics Evergreens): Franz Kafka - Softcover

Franz Kafka; Translated By Richard Stokes

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1847497195 ISBN 13: 9781847497192

Publisher: Alma Classics, 2018

Synopsis

On his thirtieth birthday, the bank clerk Josef K. is suddenly arrested by mysterious agents for an unspecified crime. He is told that he will be set free, but must make regular appearances at a court in the attic of a tenement building while his trial proceeds. Although he never comes to know the particulars of his case, Josef K. finds his life taken over by the opaque bureaucratic procedures and is tormented by the psychological pressures exerted by his legal nightmare. Published the year after the author's death, but written ten years earlier, The Trial is the most acclaimed of Kafka's three novels, and is both a haunting meditation on freedom and the powerlessness of the individual in the face of state power, and an ominous pre-figuration of the totalitarian excesses of the twentieth century. ABOUT THE SERIES: Alma Evergreens is a series of popular classics. All the titles in the series are provided with an extensive critical apparatus, extra reading material including a section of photographs and notes. The texts are based on the most authoritative edition (or collated from the most authoritative editions or manuscripts) and edited using a fresh, intelligent editorial approach. With an emphasis on the production, editorial and typographical values of a book, Alma Classics aspires to revitalize the whole experience of reading the classics.

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rare book

Review:

Those who defend the process... may offer absurd arguments, but they also state the case as clearly as it can be stated. All the humour of Kafka lies here, in the logical pursuit of absurd arguments. --Zadie Smith

About this edition

• Publisher: Alma Classics
• Publication date: 2018
• ISBN 10: 1847497195
• ISBN 13: 9781847497192
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 224