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'Someone must have been telling tales about Josef K. for one morning, without having done anything wrong, he was arrested.' A successful professional man wakes up one morning to find himself under arrest for an offence which is never explained. The mysterious court which conducts his trial is outwardly co-operative, but capable of horrific violence. Faced with this ambiguous authority, Josef K. gradually succumbs to its psychological pressure. He consults various advisers without escaping his fate. Was there some way out that he failed to see? Kafka's unfinished novel has been read as a study of political power, a pessimistic religious parable, or a crime novel where the accused man is himself the problem. One of the iconic figures of modern world literature, Kafka writes about universal problems of guilt, responsibility, and freedom; he offers no solutions, but provokes his readers to arrive at meanings of their own. This new edition includes the fragmentary chapters that were omitted from the main text, in a translation that is both natural and exact, and an introduction that illuminates the novel and its author.
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Kafka in all his books discusses the anxieties for the modern man, that is the stress to provide for oneself and for one's family, coupled by the monotony of daily life setting off to do the same day after day and trying to cope with life's stresses particularly work and living in the wider community.
In The Trial he extends this theme to the individual who has been singled out to be on trial for an unknown offence they have not committed, and finding themselves alone in their struggle to find a way out which they know from the outset is a complete dead end. One can make the analogy of the individual in a community be it neighbourhood, work, wider family, etc., who for no good reason than perhaps being different in some way, is put on trial indefinitely by that community and has to suffer as a result, with no recourse at ending that 'trial' however much they try.
In The Trial he extends this theme to the individual who has been singled out to be on trial for an unknown offence they have not committed, and finding themselves alone in their struggle to find a way out which they know from the outset is a complete dead end. One can make the analogy of the individual in a community be it neighbourhood, work, wider family, etc., who for no good reason than perhaps being different in some way, is put on trial indefinitely by that community and has to suffer as a result, with no recourse at ending that 'trial' however much they try.
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