Description
On his thirtieth birthday, bank clerk Josef K. is suddenly arrested by mysterious agents for an unspecified crime. He is told that he will be set free, but must make regular appearances at a court in the attic of a tenement building while his trial proceeds. Although he never learns the particulars of his case, Josef K. finds his life taken over by opaque bureaucratic procedures and is tormented by the psychological pressures of his legal nightmare. Published the year after Kafka’s death but written ten years earlier, this is the most acclaimed of his three novels, a haunting meditation on freedom and the individual’s powerlessness in the face of state power, as well as an ominous prefiguration of the totalitarian excesses of the twentieth century.
Information
Author: Kafka Franz
Language: English
Publication date: April 23, 2018
Manufacturer: Folio, spol.s r.o.
Genres: English literature, Books, Foreign language books, Czech fiction in english, Czech authors in english, Psychological novels in english, Fiction in english, English novels
Type: Paperback book
Pages: 224
ISBN/EAN: 9781847497192