The Trial – Franz Kafka

It is the fate and perhaps the greatness of this work that it offers everything and confirms nothing’
ALBERT CAMUS
Josef K., an ordinary bank clerk, is accused of a crime he did not commit, whose nature is never revealed to him. As he tries to defend his innocence amid a labyrinthine world of anonymous bureau- crats, stifling courtrooms and casual brutality, he becomes increasingly uncertain of his fate and spirals towards destruction. Kafka’s gripping, unnerving parable about the nature of terror and the futility of human life is at once nightmarish and chillingly real.
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The Trial – Franz Kafka