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    The Trial

    By Franz Kafka

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    The Trial is a novel written by Franz Kafka from 1914 to 1915 and published in 1925. One of his best-known works, it tells the story of a man arrested and prosecuted by a remote, inaccessible authority, with the nature of his crime revealed neither to him nor to the reader. Heavily influenced by Dostoyevsky's Crime and Punishment and The Brothers Karamazov, Kafka even went so far as to call Dostoyevsky a blood relative. Like Kafka's other novels, The Trial was never completed, although it does include a chapter which brings the story to an end. After Kafka's death in 1924 his friend and literary executor Max Brod edited the text for publication by Verlag Die Schmiede. The original manuscript is held at the Museum of Modern Literature, Marbach am Neckar, Germany. The first English language translation, by Willa and Edwin Muir, was published in 1937. In 1999, the book was listed in Le Monde's 100 Books of the Century and as No. 2 of the Best German Novels of the Twentieth Century.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherSheba Blake Publishing
    Release dateMay 19, 2017
    ISBN9783961898954
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    Franz Kafka

    Franz Kafka (1883-1924) was a primarily German-speaking Bohemian author, known for his impressive fusion of realism and fantasy in his work. Despite his commendable writing abilities, Kafka worked as a lawyer for most of his life and wrote in his free time. Though most of Kafka’s literary acclaim was gained postmortem, he earned a respected legacy and now is regarded as a major literary figure of the 20th century.

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    • 2/5
      Well, I read it. A very strange story. I found it hard to care about K and his problems.
    • 3/5
      My second Kafka, and I am now pretty sure he is indeed not my cup of tea. I think the ideas in his works are interesting, the surrealism/absurdity is something I enjoy at other times and it does work, but somehow I just find it quite tedious to read in Kafka. The story-lines intrigue me, but getting through them takes effort. I think he's worth reading, but at the same time I hesitate to recommend him.
    • 3/5
      First thing.. this book was unfinished and published after his death, and it reads that way. I can't imagine this is what Kafka would have wanted the world to read. But here we are. The only thing I would like to add to what has been written already is that our protagonist K's behavior is rarely mentioned. He's an idiot. The system he is in is oppressive and capricious but his own behavior is inexplicable and frustrating. I can appreciate this book for its historical context in literature but it's not a "good read".
    • 3/5
      The Trial by Franz Kafka is one of the masterpieces of existential literature. Or so it is said. Since I'm not up to date on my existential philosophy, the book was largely wasted on me. It's always a challenge to read books that come at life from a different world view than one's own, but to give them a fair chance requires wrestling with their philosophical underpinnings. I'm not at a point in my reading life or my intellectual life where I'm interested in exploring the existential experiences described by Franz Kafka in The Trial.Kafka certainly knows how to create atmosphere and bring a story to life, but the problems for me were the absurdist plot and the unappealing main character, Josef K. While I admire Kafka's craft as a writer, and acknowledge The Trial as an important work of literature, it's simply not to my taste at this stage of my life.
    • 2/5
      There are some interesting themes and a few isolated gems of dark humour but this was so boring to read. So boring your brain may not allow you to do anything other than skim the text and look anxiously at page numbers. Perhaps this was the whole point. Half way through there is an interminable paragraph about advocates. Camus' The Outsider is a way better read if you want something existential. Much funnier too.
    • 4/5
      A very memorable reading experience.
    • 3/5
      Densely dark, and difficult to read because of extraordinarily long paragraphs, but it gets you in, and makes you read to the end. Morbidly funereal plot, and should not be read by anyone who thinks "they are out to get me".
    • 2/5
      “The right understanding of any matter and a misunderstanding of the same matter do not wholly exclude each other.”The novel opens with Josef K.'s sudden arrest in his room at his lodging house on the morning of his birthday. Two guards inform him that he is under arrest, but they don't tell him on what charges, nor do they know what the charges are. K. is then taken next door where he is subjected to an equally puzzling and brief interrogation by the inspector. The inspector informs K. that he is under arrest, but is free to go to work at his bank and otherwise live life as usual. The book carries on to cover the following year as K. struggles against an unseen and seemingly all powerful legal system.The book was not published until after Kafka's death in 1924,despite being written over a decade earlier. Therefore published before the outbreak of Nazism in Germany and the rise to power of Josef Stalin in Russia. Many readers thus see this novel as a critique on totalitarianism and personally I find it hard to disagree with them. The image of all encompassing power seems to be the central theme as does the relationship between justice and the law. K. never discovers what he has been charged with and no one seems either able or willing to discuss his case directly with him. Much of the legal machinations seem to be based on crony-ism. Isolation of the individual is also a major theme. K. feels alienation against an indifferent society. This impression is not helped when a priest that K. meets appears in league with the legal system.Yet strangely despite this isolation sex also seems to be a fairly important component of this novel. Once K. is arrested he appears suddenly attractive to members of the opposite sex.Personally, although I found this a thought provoking read I found it hard going and did not particularly enjoy the author's writing style. Paragraphs that go on for several pages were just too much like hard work but there was just enough interest to keep me going.
    • 2/5
      Look, it's a classic. It's not the most scintillating read, and I think I would have enjoyed it more had I read it when I was a 20 year old English major. But it's fine, and it paved the way for a whole host of really great slightly surreal, absurd stories that deliver a bleak message in a readable package.
    • 2/5
      While I can't say I enjoyed it, I certainly got more out of it this time than I did 30 years ago in high school.
    • 4/5
      Indrukwekkende klassieker, blijft nog altijd zeer bevreemdend. Belangrijk thema is zeker de onmacht van het individu tegenover de anonieme maatschappelijke macht, maar nog belangrijker is dat van de menselijke relaties: wie ben ik en hoe wordt ik bekeken in de ogen van de anderen?
    • 4/5
      It was scary and funny and so very, very dark, and lots of it seems just about right.
    • 5/5
      Why was Joseph K taken, enough to keep you gripped. Luckily there is no such thing as rendition in these enlightened days!
    • 4/5
      I'm not sure what to say about The Trial that hasn't already been said. It's elusive, infuriating, and beautifully dark. Parts of it reminded me of my wife. I'm not sure what that means.
    • 5/5
      The Trial reveals how we are the ultimate creators of our realities. Both consciously and unconsciously, our deemed realities are based off of delusions and phantasy. "Reality" is that which we choose to perceive. There's a tendency to blame tangible, external occurrences for our condition when, in truth, the crimes and punishments reside within ourselves. We are the prosecutors, the judges, the jury, the criminals, the victims, etc.

      This is a vivid portrayal of the agonizing sufferings one experiences when all they strive for is to get away from the terror that surrounds them, only to realize that this terror 'is' them. Protagonist and antagonist become one in a battle of self-conflictions.
    • 4/5
      Reading this book felt like being an observer to someone's bizarre dream, or rather nightmare. Josef K wakes up one day to find that he is under arrest for an unspecified crime. He is allowed to stay at home while he awaits his trial. What follows is a surreal story that follows Josef through the court system. Neither the reader nor Josef ever discovers the crime he is accused of.

      I'm not sure if I enjoyed this book - I'm not even sure that I could coherently explain the plot. But I occasionally come across the adjective 'Kafkaesque' to describe something unbelievable or nightmarish. Now I have a better understanding of what that means! Excellent audiobook narration by George Guidall.
    • 5/5
      A nightmarish tale about the labyrinth of bureaucracy and the alienation of the self against power. A scary book and a must-read for everyone. Extremely original. Flawless construction. A masterpiece in every sense. Essential to understand the very meaning of the word "kafkian".
    • 4/5
      Kind of a frustrating read, as I suppose it was intended to be.
    • 4/5
      The Trial is a fascinating novel. One can take it in several different ways---for instance, as a quasi-surrealist satire on the early-20th century German legal system (which is unfortunately in some ways relevant to the early-21st century American reader), or as a proto-absurdist metaphysical parable.It was definitely not what I expected. I imagined it would largely be about, well, an actual trial, but the protagonist Josef K. never actually gets his final hearing, though a judgment is reached in his absence and his sentence carried out. The translator explains that this is because the German word for "trial" encompasses all the legal proceedings leading up to and surrounding what we would think of in English as the trial proper. So the book mainly follows K.'s utterly ineffectual attempts to navigate the legal system, though he never even manages to learn what crime he is accused of.Toward the end, a priest from the court tells K. a story (a parable within a parable, so to speak, though Kafka published it as an independent story) about a man who spends his whole life waiting outside his personal gateway into the Law, but never gains admittance through it. They then engage in a long discussion explicating it, which concludes with K.'s statement that "Lies are made into a universal system." Kafka immediately tells us that this was not his final judgment, because he was too tired to take in all the consequences of the story...but this qualification is perhaps an ironic one, since it is in fact the final statement K. gives about it, and considering K.'s own ultimate fate.Unlike Kafka's other unfinished novels (such as The Castle, which simply ends abruptly), The Trial is a complete story, Kafka just never revised it into a final form for publication. Still, it is for that reason among others probably the most readable of his major unfinished works (or, for that matter, of many of his finished ones).Breon Mitchell's translation of this edition is excellent as far as I can judge without being able to read the original myself, and his discussion of his principles and his version's difference from the previous translation is very illuminating, even of the meaning of the novel itself. And George Guidall is perfectly suited to the narration, so I would definitely recommend this audio edition as a good way to experience this strange, funny, sad, frightening novel.
    • 1/5
      Sorry, I didn't get it. One of the greatest writers of the early 20th century....beats me!!!
    • 4/5
      Great fear is waking up as K did, and finding yourself wrapped in a absurd trial. Pure horror novel, K searches truth, freedom and justice, only to find procrastination, condemn or apparent absolution. Even not women nor love could save him, as there was only corruption and seduction.
    • 5/5
      K was accused of an undisclosed crime, based on a hidden law, by an unreachable court. Trying to uncover his crime, he encountered gatekeepers dedicated to blocking his eyes from not only the crime but also the law. At first, shocked or tickled by such a nightmare, the reader soon realized that his biases, prejudices and presumptions are those of K and that to the court administrators, K was the lunatic whose delusion had clouded his eyes. How could we be guilty of violating a law we don’t know of? How could there be a crime without a law? Perhaps K was guilty of holding onto such biases as logic and causality or merely of existing. Whether he understood the law or accepted the sentence, he couldn’t avoid the punishment just as a boy couldn’t avoid growing up.Locating the crime, the law or the court pales against our discovering the colored glasses with which we see the sea and the sky, the banknote and the meatloaf, Napoleon and Genghis Khan, or for that matter, the man or woman in the mirror. We created natural laws to rein in protons and electrons; we created civil laws to rein in John and Jane; we created ecclesiastical canons to rein in God. Then we organized these absolute truths to rein in our fears, hopes and humanity. So once in a while we should enjoy the shock as from The Trial and realize that we still could create absolute truths when we’re bored texting or twittering.
    • 3/5
      This was quite a unique book in the way the author describes the events surrounding the main character. Very surreal in a way and you get the impression that the author is trying to show his impression of things in more ways than the direct occurrence of what he's writing about. It's not an easy read but I found many of the passages very interesting and absorbing.
    • 5/5
      The Trial (tr. David Whiting). It's probably unwise to compete with the mountain of critical commentary known as "fortress Kafka" but I will give a first impression: dream-like, disjointed, modernist, hardly a plot. The writing is precise and realistic, like a court record - but events unfold in a terrifying nightmare that never ends. Throughout I was reminded of experiences at Wikipedia - anonymous people, unknown motives, unknowable systems, no escape, inability to control events and procedures and so on. I think the reason this story is so influential is because it is a mirror - the more one looks into it the more it looks back at you, offering endless possibility for interpretation. What an awful view on modernity. Mostly I found it an uncomfortable book (by design). I might try the Orson Welles adaptation as another approach, Welles thought it his best film. Update: The Orson Welles film is excellent, the sets are amazing, but like the book it is uncomfortable.
    • 5/5
      I've always avoided literary criticism, introductions, translator's prefaces, and the like because I've often found them either stultifying or only tangentially connected to the work in question; I also don't like being told what to look for or think about. After reading a book, criticism can be interesting though. Anyway, as a result I have no idea what's proper or improper to think about Kafka or The Trial.

      So, a few uninformed thoughts as I'm still reading it.

      Existentialism has a bad habit of co-opting any work that can be even partially read as existentialist. Once that's done, and you know about it, it's difficult to read whatever it is without existentialism in mind.

      The simplest reading of The Trial is that K. is trapped in an overwhelming, soft tyranny of bureaucracy, as faceless as his accusers, who are also rather trapped in a self-perpetuating machine. Considering the environment Kafka lived in--Eastern Europe with its ancient, headless mob of anti-Semitism--and his background in law it's not unreasonable to think that he drew from the tortured circles of law and the creeping fear of unchecked, nameless depersonalization of totalitarianism and prejudice. Lost in a bureaucratic tangle of unfair power positions and esoteric rules is a fear most people can relate to.

      K.'s predicament reminded me somewhat of Survival in Auschwitz in that K., like Levi and other holocaust victims, was thrown into a sort of large scale social Darwinism. K. seems unfit.

      I constantly think of the book as a parable of humanity: birth is the unnamed crime, life is the defense, death is the trial. K.'s increasing inability to think rationally as he became obsessed by the proceedings, his instinctual turn toward immobility and sexual gratification, and his realization that he would be unable to account for every moment of his life all fit in. But I'm not big on that sort of thing and as I continue to read the book the idea will probably collapse. Law=God, bureaucracy=inept intercessor, K.=unable to autonomously leave the trap? Meh.

      Brilliant, especially from Block on, so brilliant as to almost ruin you for other books. Kafka's prose carries forward relentlessly without ever sacrificing subtlety.

      Block and the lawyer comprise a perverted deathbed.

      K.'s execution is handled exceptionally and tinged with a revelation withheld, if there is one to withhold. Reminiscent of the grandmother's death in O'Connor's "A Good Man Is Hard to Find."

      Not my favorite novel of the 20th century, but certainly one of the best. The Trial seeps into your bones; if you read it it's with you for good.
    • 5/5
      When I first read Kafka’s The Trial I was fascinated. 40 years on I find it still as fascinating, the more so in fact, because I have had many years in the meantime to confirm how, despite its nightmarish qualities, it is a very realistic work. That is to say, it reflects very accurately the real world and the real hopes and fears we humans entertain every day.You’ll say that I speak for myself! and that not everyone is a neurotic, or is delusional or paranoid. True. But elements of The Trial apply to most people, although I suppose there may be some who never in their whole lives have been beset by a worry that has stayed with them a considerable time, and which has grown stronger and more insidious over that time. If there are people like that, I haven’t met them. And I’m not one of them!The novel is an almost clinical case study of the way an individual can be destroyed by circumstances beyond his control, especially when he begins by thinking that he CAN control events. One of the most affecting parts of the book is K’s early confidence that HE can take charge and wrap things up quickly. Hence his arrogance in addressing the ‘court, which is held in a very bizarre location: ‘He was given the number of the house where he had to go, it was a house in an outlying suburban street where he had never been before’.As regards the ‘court’ itself, all its musty, pedantic and beaurocratic nature comes through strongly and reminds one of the ‘circumlocution office’ in Dickens’s Little Dorrit. I am not aware that Kafka (1883-1924) knew anything of Dickens (1812-1870) and so this aspect of their work would seem to be an example of two extraordinary writers ‘zooming in’ on aspect of social organisation’ with equal extraordinary effect ( though maybe Kafka has a slight edge in ‘nightmarishness’?). Both have contributed their names to the language in the form of powerful adjectives.I have to say that this book has been a personal favorite with me over the years and when I said above that I find it ‘fascinating’ I am using the word its strict sense of ’attract or influence irresistibly’ Like everyone else, I have had some personal experience of situations in which one feels an overpowering sense of helplessness. Kafka’s device of having his character overcome by weakness and a sense of suffocation is extremely effective, not least because it reflects the actual psychosomatic symptoms that one often experiences in situation like this. There is too the feeling that anything one does will only make the situation worse, so the best idea would be to sit still and wait out events. But this is very hard to do because things may be getting worse anyway, and just BECAUSE one is doing nothing. And so perhaps one should intervene…And so on. A really fine novel, tightly written and extraordinarily perceptive of the human condition, and one which can never be ‘outdated’. The only true parallel in my reading that I can think of is Orwell’s 1984. Humour too, though of the dark kind.To use a word that is considerably overused and abused: The Trial is a work of genius. One of my all-time favourite novels. [Translated from the German - Der Prozess (published posthumously 1925) - by Willa and Edwin Muir (1936)].
    • 2/5
      Listening to unabridged audio.
      23 Feb 11: Praise be. I'm done listening to this. It was torture. I get (I think) what Kafka was trying to say that the law is so complex at times that it is completely inaccessible to 'normal' people, even smart successful ones. Or maybe he wasn't trying to say anything at all.

      Like I said before, I disliked the characters - all of them - and I found the on-going conspiracy - reaching the edges of everything - irritating.

      Has anyone else read this one? Maybe they want to explain it to me?
      18 Feb 11: Ch. 7? 8? : I totally hate all the characters. This may be part of the reason I'm feeling lethargic about law school -- it reads a bit like 'Alice in Wonderland'... in court.

    • 3/5
      I began reading The Trial mostly because it is the sort of book that you feel you should read, and that impression was mostly unchanged upon finishing it.The plot of The Trial is probably well-known even to those who have never read it. On the morning of his thirtieth birthday, Josef K. is arrested. The charges are never revealed to him, and Josef K. must attempt to defend himself against unknown charges in the face of an obscured and foreboding legal system.Ultimately, The Trial is a book about which I have little to say. It was certainly a worthwhile read if only to gain a greater understanding of what it means to be “Kafkaesque.” Perhaps my biggest complaint is that Kafka’s purpose seemed to be to make a point rather than to make a point through telling a story. Of course, the fact that The Trial remained unfinished on Kafka’s death more than likely contributes to this feeling.In short: when I read the last page of The Trial, I was glad to have read it, but I was even more glad to have finished it. And that probably says everything that needs to be said.
    • 5/5
      Behind Dostoevsky's Crime and Punishment, this is perhaps the greatest book in which the author immerses his reader into the protagonist's soul. The damnable truth of the matter is there is little absurd in Kafka's "absurd" prose. This book grips you in the protagonist's fear, despair, despondency, boldness, and indecisiveness. He can trust no one, and everyone turns out to be his enemy. Just imagine how great the story would be if the author lived to complete it. Alas, maybe it would not be as good at all. Anyway, enjoy this classic tale, and learn how little stands between Kafka's written word, and current day.
    • 4/5
      As the Trial is somewhat of a classic, I really don't have much to add. Overall I really liked the book and its sense of paranoia and futility in the face of bureaucracy. If you are familiar at all with Kafka, you'll neither be surprised nor disappointed.

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    The Trial - Franz Kafka

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