The Trial

Name: The Trial
Brand: Findaway
Availability: InStock
Rating: 4.2 (54 reviews)
Author: Franz Kafka
ISBN: 9781398838727

Author: Franz Kafka

Series: Arcturus Classics

Narrator: Richard Attlee

Unabridged: 8 hr 12 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Arcturus Digital

Published: 03/01/2025

Categories: Fiction, Literary Fiction, Dystopian, Classic

Synopsis

In the end, out of nothing at all, an enormous fabric of guilt will be conjured up.One morning Josef K. is arrested for a crime he did not commit. In fact, he is never even told the nature of the offense. His life is thrown into turmoil as he becomes enmeshed in a struggle to prove his innocence. As the confounding case unfolds, K. is ultimately powerless - battling against a remote and uncaring bureaucracy.This edition features a new translation by Isabel Tucker. Due to its posthumous publication, The Trial 's original text is largely unedited and Tucker emends certain details while retaining the enigmatic and surreal style which marks Kafka's brilliance.Filled with psychological tension and disconcerting parallels with the modern world, The Trial is a dystopian masterpiece by one of the greatest writers in the German-language.

About Franz Kafka

Franz Kafka (1883–1924) was one of the major fiction writers of the twentieth century. His unique body of writing-much of which is incomplete and which was mainly published posthumously-is considered to be among the most influential in Western literature. Among his most well known stories are "The Metamorphosis" and "In the Penal Colony," and his novels include The Trial and The Castle.

Reviews

Goodreads review by s.penkevich on September 26, 2023

It is not necessary to accept everything as true, one must only accept it as necessary Nothing speaks a more profound truth than a pristine metaphor… Funny, us, worming through the world ascribing meaning, logic and order to the dumb, blind forces of void. It’s all one can do to maintain sanity in the......more

Goodreads review by Vit on May 15, 2024

Guilt and innocence: Who can be considered innocent and who can be considered guilty? After all, K. lived in a state governed by law, there was universal peace, all statutes were in force; who dared assault him in his own lodgings? The state is an ogre… The citizen is a pygmy… And an ogre can do with......more

Goodreads review by emma on May 15, 2024

It's important, in this life, to have goals. Sure, they are often a lesson in the enduring power of futility, our lack of free will as demonstrated by the ever-present arm of bureaucracy. If your goal, for example, is à la our protagonist's, you will spend several years or 341 pages or the rest of yo......more

Goodreads review by Sean Barrs on October 26, 2016

This book haunts me. I can’t stop thinking about it because I have questions, questions and more questions; I have so many unanswered questions that I will never know the answer to, and it’s slowly killing me! What is the trial? Is K actually guilty or is he innocent? Is this novel a nightmare sequen......more