The trial / Franz Kafka with an epilogue by Max Brod. [Translated from the German by Willa and Edwin Muir]

Kafka, Franz (1883-1924)

1953, 1st Penguin Edition. Harmondsworth: Penguin Books. Good paperback copy; edges somewhat dust-dulled and nicked. Remains quite well-preserved overall. Item #346341

Physical description: 255 pages; 18 cm. Summary:
The Trial was the first of Kafka's books to appear as a Penguin. The work of this strange and mystifying Czech writer, who died of consumption in 1924, has earned him a unique reputation in modern European literature and has provoked many endeavours to 'interpret' his view of life. The Tril relates the perplexing experiences of a man ostensibly arrested on a charge which is never specified, but within the pattern of the complicated narrative Kafka is trying to elucidate some of the fundamental dilemma's of human life. The story is a Pilgrim's Progress of the subconscious, the phantasmagoria of a sensitive mind oppressed and bewildered by the burden of living. It reads like the transcripts of a protracted, implacable dream in which reality is entangled with imagination. Subjects: Fiction. German fiction in English. 20th century fiction. Kafka, Franz.

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