The Trial - Definitive Edition

Kafka, Franz;

ISBN 10: 0805208488 / ISBN 13: 9780805208481

Published by Quality Paperback Book Club, New York, 1991

About this Item

281 Pges. This work is a transation of the German Der Prozess edited by Max Brod. This edition was specially created in 1991 by Quality Paperback Book Club by arrangement Pantheon books. Tight book with no marks or stamps and a flawless interior. This is one of the great novels of the 20th century and is the terrifying story of Joseph K., a respectable functionary in a bank who is suddenly arrested and must spend the rest of his life fighting a charge against him about which he can get no information. This definitive edition includes Kafka's drawings and excerpts from his diaries during the peirod in which he wrote The Trial. About the book Albert Camus says 'here we are taken to the limits of human thought. Indeed, everything inn this work is, in the true sense, essential. It states the problem of the absurd in its entirety'. Contetns in Ten Chapters: The Arrest Conversation with Fru Grubach, First Interrogation, In the Empty Courtroom The Student The Offices, Fraulein Burstner's Friend, The Whipper, K.'s Uncle Leni, Lawyer Manfacturer Painter, Block the Tradesman Dismissal of the Lawyer, In the Cathedral, and The End. Four Appendices: The Unfinished Chapters, The Passages Deleted by the Author, Postscripts by Max Brod, and Excerpts from Kafka's Diaries.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Trial - Definitive Edition
• Publisher: Quality Paperback Book Club, New York
• Publication Date: 1991
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0805208488
• ISBN 13: 9780805208481
• Binding: Trade Paperback
• Illustrator: Elias, Monica - Cover
• Condition: Very Good

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Synopsis

Written in 1914, The Trial is one of the most important novels of the twentieth century: the terrifying tale of Josef K., a respectable bank officer who is suddenly and inexplicably arrested and must defend himself against a charge about which he can get no information. Whether read as an existential tale, a parable, or a prophecy of the excesses of modern bureaucracy wedded to the madness of totalitarianism, Kafka's nightmare has resonated with chilling truth for generations of readers. This new edition is based upon the work of an international team of experts who have restored the text, the sequence of chapters, and their division to create a version that is as close as possible to the way the author left it.

In his brilliant translation, Breon Mitchell masterfully reproduces the distinctive poetics of Kafka's prose, revealing a novel that is as full of energy and power as it was when it was first written.

About the Author

Breon Mitchell has received the ATA German Literary Prize, among other translation awards. He is a professor of Germanic studies and comparative literature at Indiana University.