From its gripping first sentence onward, this novel exemplifies the term "Kafkaesque." Its darkly humorous narrative recounts a bank clerk's entrapment in a bureaucratic maze, based on an undisclosed charge.
This volume contains the great works of fiction as well as the complete diaries and thus gives the reader considrable insight into the mind of this strange and powerful man.
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.
Part of the Legend Classics series It's only because of their stupidity that they're able to be so sure of themselves.
137 Johnson would be telling investigators: These facts and those which follow are taken, except where otherwise specified, from Edgar W. Butler et al., Anatomy of the McMartin Child Molestation Case (Lanham, Md., 2001), and Paul Eberle ...
In the tyranny without a tyrant, a men is lost, meandering the labyrinths made of labyrinths that is the judicial process.
Imagine you are Bruno Richard Hauptmann, accused of murdering the son of the most famous man in America.
A lawyer ready to die takes one final case...the trial of his life.
This “remarkable” (Bustle) book “should be at the top of your reading list” (PopSugar).
Narrates the experiences and reactions of a respectable bank functionary after his abrupt arrest on an undisclosed charge Introduction by George Steiner; Translation by Willa and Edwin Muir
The book is based on the proceedings of two workshops which took place in 2003, addressing the theme of Truth and Due Process in the Criminal Trial.