Josef K., a bank officer, wakes one morning to find himself under arrest, charged with something no one will name. In the months that follow he is summoned to a court that sits in tenement attics, is advised by his uncle, a bedridden lawyer and the court painter, and hears a priest tell the parable of the doorkeeper who guards the Law. The more he tries to prove his innocence, the more his case takes over his life. Kafka wrote it in 1914 and 1915.
Philosophy, bureaucracy-satire and modernist classics all meet in it. It is one of the best-known novels about a person trapped in an indifferent system.
Deep, inward-looking, open-ended and thought-provoking; a moderate read.
Best for readers like The Literary Connoisseur. Which reader are you?
- Published
- 2006
- Publisher
- Anaconda
- Language
- DE
