Narrates the experiences and reactions of a respectable bank functionary after his abrupt arrest on an undisclosed charge
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.
"Someone must have been telling lies about Josef K., he knew he had done nothing wrong but, one morning, he was arrested." From its gripping first sentence onward, this novel exemplifies the term "Kafkaesque".
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.
Part of the Legend Classics series It's only because of their stupidity that they're able to be so sure of themselves.
Imagine you are Bruno Richard Hauptmann, accused of murdering the son of the most famous man in America.
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 ...
The Trial
The Trial is one of Franz Kafka's most well-known and wonderfully strange works. This Xist Classics edition has been professionally formatted for e-readers with a linked table of contents.
This “remarkable” (Bustle) book “should be at the top of your reading list” (PopSugar).
The question How German Is It underlies the conduct and actions of the characters in Walter Abish's novel, an icy panorama of contemporary Germany, in which the tradition of order and obedience, the patrimony of the saber and the castle on ...