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The Trial

Author
Franz Kafka
Read by
Sebastian Blackwood
Language
English
Length
7 hours 11 minutes
ISBN
9781787369788
Published
22 April 2024
Imprint
Sovereign
  • existentialism
  • bureaucracy
  • surreal
  • injustice
  • legal drama
  • alienation
  • psychological fiction
  • societal critique
  • absurdity
  • judicial system

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Description

Josef K. wakes under arrest with no charge he can name, and walks a labyrinth of courts, clerks, and indifference that never explains itself. Kafka?s novel of institutional power and the fragile dignity of a man seeking justice he cannot find. Spoken as when the accusation arrives first and the reason never does catch up.

Author

Franz Kafka (1883–1924) is the foundational voice of a whole modern territory — the literature of systems, shame, and waking dread. He specialised in situations that feel both dreamlike and bureaucratically precise: a man becomes an insect overnight; another is arrested without knowing the charge; a surveyor never reaches the castle that governs him.

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