The Trial
Franz Kafka
A bank officer is inexplicably arrested and must defend himself against a charge with no information in The Trial. This existential tale, published posthumously in 1925, delves into the madness of totalitarianism and resonates with chilling truth for generations of readers.
Publish Date
2001-04-09T00:00:00.000Z
2001-04-09T00:00:00.000Z
first published in 1925
Goodreads Rating
3.96
ISBN
9780199238293
Categories
Recommendations
3
Recommendations
2018-05-31T10:22:22.000Z
Five novels I think about all the time
- 1984: States crave control
- The Trial: Bureaucracies eats people
- The Stranger: Alienation is a vantage point
- Animal Farm: Revolutions usually corrupt
- Brave New World: Caste systems fence morality – source2016-08-17T00:00:00.000Z
Reading Kafka's The Trial as a teenager, I found myself laughing at how much the struggles and frustrations of Josef K. reminded me of my own. Luckily I had a better fate than he, but this book gave a voice to the frustrations I had about my own powerlessness, and somehow pumped me full of courage.
The way in which this book shaped my life the most, however, was not through the tale itself, but by the life of Franz Kafka. Reading of his journey as a writer, having to struggle working a soulless job, reminded me of my own life and inspired me to try to make something of myself no matter what my day job happened to be. – source