The Trial: Franz Kafka

by Franz Kafka (Author), Franz Kafka (Author), Franz Kafka (Author), Willa Muir (Translator), Philippe Sands (Introduction), Edwin Muir (Translator)

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  Paperback
  2001

  $5.83

  The terrifying tale of Joseph K, a respectable functionary in a bank, who is suddenly arrested and must defend his innocence against a charge about which he can get no information. A nightmare vision of the excesses of modern bureaucracy wedded to the mad agendas of twentieth-century totalitarian regimes.

• Used

  Paperback
  1990

  $11.92

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  Hardcover
  1994

  $5.71

  From the first sentence onwards, Josef K. is on trial for his very existence in a novel which is infinitely perceptive about the nature of terror. Idris Parry introduces his new translation, based on the accurate German text established by Malcolm Pasley, with an essay in which he points to the autobiographical elements in The Trial , in particular Kafka's broken engagement to Felice Bauer.

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  Paperback
  2001

  $10.80

  The terrifying tale of Joseph K, a respectable functionary in a bank, who is suddenly arrested and must defend his innocence against a charge about which he can get no information. A nightmare vision of the excesses of modern bureaucracy wedded to the mad agendas of twentieth-century totalitarian regimes.

• New

  Hardcover
  1992

  $15.64

  The story of the mysterious indictment, trial and reckoning forced upon Kafka's Joseph K. is one of the twentieth century's master parables which has influenced almost every major writer since. By rendering the absurd and the terrifying with scrupulous factual accuracy and evenness of tone, Kafka presents the world we recognize in a gripping narrative which is also a revelation of its hidden significance.