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Binding: HardcoverDewey Decimal Number: 833.912 EAN: 9780679409946 ISBN: 0679409947 Label: Everyman's Library Manufacturer: Everyman's Library Number Of Items: 1 Number Of Pages: 336 Publication Date: June 30, 1992 Publisher: Everyman's Library Release Date: June 30, 1992 Studio: Everyman's Library Editorial Review: Amazon.com Review: A terrifying psychological trip into the life of one Joseph K., an ordinary man who wakes up one day to find himself accused of a crime he did not commit, a crime whose nature is never revealed to him. Once arrested, he is released, but must report to court on a regular basis--an event that proves maddening, as nothing is ever resolved. As he grows more uncertain of his fate, his personal life--including work at a bank and his relations with his landlady and a young woman who lives next door--becomes increasingly unpredictable. As K. tries to gain control, he succeeds only in accelerating his own excruciating downward spiral. Product Description: (Book Jacket Status: Jacketed) The story of the mysterious indictment, trial, and reckoning forced upon Joseph K. in Franz Kafka’s The Trial is one of the twentieth century’s master parables, reflecting the central spiritual crises of modern life. Kafka’s method–one that has influenced, in some way, almost every writer of substance who followed him–was to render the absurd and the terrifying convincing by a scrupulous, hyperreal matter-of-factness of tone and treatment. He thereby imparted to his work a level of seriousness normally associated with civilization’s most cherished poems and religious texts. Translated by Willa and Edwin Muir Average Rating:
 Rating: - An eternal cry against oppression, and of the quiet, unseen struggle waged by ordinary peopleFranz Kafka has a unique reputation in European literature of the 20th century. He died of tuberculosis in 1924, aged only 41. Were it not for the efforts of his great friend, Max Brod, most, if not all, Kafka's work would have probably been lost. "The Trial" appeared in 1925. Kafka's work comprised only three novels ("The Trial", "America" and "The Castle"), but numerous stories, letters, diaries and fragments. This is surprisingly little output to have elevated Kafka to the reputation ... Read More Rating:  - I dont get itI had never read Kafka before until this book, which from reputation is supposed to be one of the finest works ever put to paper. Now I don't want to toot my own horn, but I read a lot of books, so I am not coming out of the clear blue when I say this book wasn't very good. I will break it down in these few points. 1- It is physically excruciating to read. There are no breaks in dialogue or paragraphs. During the course of reading I would forget (or loose interest) who was saying what to whom. The ... Read More Rating:  - Great ReadJust picked it up on a whim a year or so back - very interesting underrated book that we can all relate to in some manner, but still retains an air of mystery (since his "crime" is never disclosed) to make you think a bit. Hopefully I don't sound pretentious, but shortly after I read Ivan Illich Deschooling Society. While justice systems aren't schools, I think the phrase "We confuse teaching with being taught...police for security...politics for order...and overall trained to confuse service ... Read More Rating: - hauntingly prescientKafka depicts a terrifying world, a man lost in a world of utter unintelligibility - it is the horror story of the 20th century, where man has sought to negate both his own intelligibility and that of the world. Kafka pre-empts the regimes of Stalin, Hitler and all the other crazies of the 20th Century. Rating: - The Fear, Despondency, and Despair of A Soul.Behind Dostoevsky's Crime and Punishment, this is perhaps the greatest book in which the author immerses his reader into the protagonist's soul. The damnable truth of the matter is there is little absurd in Kafka's "absurd" prose. This book grips you in the protagonist's fear, despair, despondency, boldness, and indecisiveness. He can trust no one, and everyone turns out to be his enemy. Just imagine how great the story would be if the author lived to complete it. Alas, maybe it would not be as good at all. ... Read More |
