Authors: Franz Kafka
ISBN-13: 9781847029805, ISBN-10: 1847029809
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Echo Library
Date Published: May 2006
Edition: 1st Edition
Franz Kafka was one of the most significant and influential fiction writers of the 20th century. Dark, absurdist, and existential, his stories and novels concern the struggles of troubled individuals to survive in an impersonal, bureaucratic world.
From its gripping first sentence onward, this novel exemplifies the term "Kafkaesque." Its darkly humorous narrative recounts a bank clerk's entrapment in a bureaucratic maze, based on an undisclosed charge.
The Trial is not for everybody, and its peculiar air of excitement will seem flat enough to those who habitually feed on 'exciting' books. It belongs not with the many novels that horrify, but with the many fewer which terrify.
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 |