An emblematic work, along with "The Castle" and "The Metamorphosis," of what has come to be known as "the Kafkaesque," "The Trial" is among the few literary works that have achieved the rare destiny of vastly transcending the mere limits of its nature as a story. Indeed, in th...
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An emblematic work, along with "The Castle" and "The Metamorphosis," of what has come to be known as "the Kafkaesque," "The Trial" is among the few literary works that have achieved the rare destiny of vastly transcending the mere limits of its nature as a story. Indeed, in this novel, which begins with the arrest, one morning, of Josef K., supposedly accused of a crime he will never know, and who from that moment finds himself entangled in an inextricable web governed by an omnipresent and omnipotent mechanism whose reasons and purposes are inscrutable, Franz Kafka forged a vigorous metaphor for the condition of modern man. -- An emblematic work, along with "The Castle" and "The Metamorphosis," of what has come to be known as "the Kafkaesque," "The Trial" is among the few literary works that have achieved the rare destiny of vastly transcending the mere limits of its nature as a story. Indeed, in this novel, which begins with the arrest, one morning, of Josef K., supposedly accused of a crime he will never know, and who from that moment finds himself entangled in an inextricable web governed by an omnipresent and omnipotent mechanism whose reasons and purposes are inscrutable, Franz Kafka forged a vigorous metaphor for the condition of modern man. |
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