The Trial

It's only because of their stupidity that they're able to be so sure of themselves.

A novel of such ambiguity will inevitably lend itself to a diversity of interpretation, but in The Trial you can at least be sure to find every element of storytelling now defined as Kafkaesque.

Josef K., our protagonist, is unexpectedly arrested on the morning of his 30th birthday. The agents who arrest him are unidentified, the agency they work for is unspecified, and the crime for which he has been accused is unknown. When he is released, shortly after, he is told to await further instruction. So begins the manic and emotionless trial of a man beholden to the whims of an unknown force, and his painstaking attempts to find a way out of this existential maze.

The Trial brings into focus the absurdity of life, our universal fear of judgement, and one ultimate question: how much of this endless maze will you explore before you accept the fate life has bestowed upon you?

Publisher: Legends Press
Published: 10/15/2021
Pages: 288
Weight: 0.5lbs
Size: 7.70h x 5.10w x 0.80d
ISBN: 9781789559521

About the Author
Franz Kafka left behind explicit instructions in the event of his death: every piece of writing is "to be burned unread." We can only imagine what the landscape of literature would look like today had they followed his request. He is now regarded as one of the most influential writers of the 20th and 21st century, inspiring the likes of W. H. Auden, Vladimir Nabokov, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Jorge Luis Borges, Albert Camus, J. M. Coetzee, José Saramago, J. D. Salinger, and Jean-Paul Sartre. It is rumored that Kafka's lover also ignored his request, and secretly kept 20 notebooks and 35 letters. Scholars continue to search for them.