The Trial (Penguin Twentieth Century Classics)

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Franz Kafka

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Pages: 208 (Hardcover)

ISBN: 0140186220

Pub: Penguin Books Ltd

Pub date: 1994-06-30

Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 57899

Reader Reviews:

A book about the greatest anxiety of man: knowing his worth. (1/1 people found this helpful)

Kafka's "The Trial" is undoubtably a work of a genius. He focuses primarily on a Platonic sense of justice, and then destroys it with one sharp swoop. A work whose post-modernity and classical significance is prolific, and a forerunner to Fukayama's endism. By the time we reach the end of this disconcerting novel we realise that we are essentially meaningles, but scmeaningful: at the very point at which Melville's whalers fell forever silent, realising there was no more to be said, yes, that is the point at which 'The Trial' talks on..

The best! (1/3 people found this helpful)

Undoubtedly this is the best book ever written. As someone (I can't remeber who!) put it: "...it offers everything, but confirms nothing."

The ineffectiveness of one man's struggle to achieve justice (0/2 people found this helpful)

A veiled look at Stalinism and the lack of free will in such a society. The utter hopelessness felt by the individual Joseph K, who can find no way to achieve any true justice in a system that is devised to suppress, control and put fear into the populace. A fantastically gloomy look at a very scary world. The pretence of a justice system only adds to the frustration, showing how powerless man is to overcome such repression. One of the best book I have ever read. Read it, you won't be disappointed!

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