Trial A New Translation Based on the Restored Text

Kafka intuitively understood Modernity. The Trial is evidence to that astounding understanding of the alienation, and isolation that Modernity reproduces, both in it's bureaucracies, and in it's shallowness and inability to recognize itself. It is tragic, that Kafka also understood himself through the lens of Modernity. The book itself is highly intelligent, filled with subtle philosophical...more

Kafka intuitively understood Modernity. The Trial is evidence to that astounding understanding of the alienation, and isolation that Modernity reproduces, both in it's bureaucracies, and in it's shallowness and inability to recognize itself. It is tragic, that Kafka also understood himself through the lens of Modernity. The book itself is highly intelligent, filled with subtle philosophical wisdom that is lost on all but those who are truly seeking it. The exacting imagination of the book is an affirmation that Kafka is perhaps one of the greatest visionary writers in fiction since the days of the German Romanticism in the early 19th and late 18th centuries.   hide

An incomplete novel, in which the symbolism presents a more deeper, disturbing hidden meaning. Various interpretations exist. I myself feel that Joseph K. ruled himself as guilty, and succumb to his own consciousness of it.

Josef K is arrested one morning, for a reason that is never revealed... thence a disturbing journey where Josef K tries to find out why and tries to get control of the situation of which he discovers that he has no control over the situation. Kafka explores the pschycology of Josef's thoughts and feelings as he tries to cope. He also explores the role of Bureaucracy in society and a...more

Josef K is arrested one morning, for a reason that is never revealed... thence a disturbing journey where Josef K tries to find out why and tries to get control of the situation of which he discovers that he has no control over the situation. Kafka explores the pschycology of Josef's thoughts and feelings as he tries to cope. He also explores the role of Bureaucracy in society and a brilliantly profound treatise towards the end on Justice and society's relationship to it. A very difficult book to read but it's one of those rare books that the harder it gets to read the more you want to read it. It exudes dread, suspense and humour in sufficient quantity to keep you reading. Eventually sentence is pronounced and executed.   hide

HATED this book at first- but working for the department of education has granted me a newfound appreciation.