Josef arrives at the hearing and is lost. He understands that this is done to avoid interference with his job obligations. However, he is not given the exact time or place. After a few weeks, he receives a notice to attend a court hearing on Sunday. So, he goes to work every day and tries to live a routine life. Surprisingly, Josef is permitted to do his regular job.
He asks many questions to find out why is he arrested, but the officers say nothing. Two men without uniform enter Josef’s home and arrest him without giving an explanation.
One day while he is waiting for his breakfast, he faces an explainable situation as if he woke up to a new bureaucratic world. Using the power of simple, straightforward language Kafka draws the reader into this bleak and frightening world so that we too experience the fears, uncertainties and tragedy of Joseph K.Josef K works in a bank, living an ordinary life. It is an account, ultimately, of state-induced self-destruction presenting in a nightmarish scenario the persecution of the outsider and the incomprehensible machinations of the state. The Trial is the chronicle of his fight to prove his innocence, of his struggles and encounters with the invisible Law and the untouchable Court where he must make regular visits. On the morning of his thirtieth birthday, a young bank official named Joseph K is arrested although he has done nothing wrong and is never told what he’s been charged with. This edition is translated from German by Douglas Scott and Chris Waller, and features an afterword by David Stuart Davies.
These beautiful books make perfect gifts or a treat for any book lover. Part of the Macmillan Collector’s Library, a series of stunning, clothbound, pocket-sized classics with gold-foiled edges and ribbon markers. In Kafka's powerful and disturbing novel, an innocent man is arrested and repeatedly interrogated for a crime that is never ever explained.
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