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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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In "The Trial," Franz Kafka plunges readers into the surreal and troubling world of Josef K., who awakens one day to find himself inexplicably arrested. Without understanding his crime or accusers, Josef navigates a Kafkaesque labyrinth of bureaucratic indifference and the grotesque machinations of an opaque legal system. This masterful narrative probes the absurdity of institutional power, the fragility of human dignity, and the elusive quest for justice. Kafka's tale remains a timeless reflection on the individual versus the unfathomable forces of society.

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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