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Shows how The Trial provides an uncanny lens through which to consider flaws in the American criminal justice system today. The author begins with the story, at once funny and grim, of Josef K, caught in the Law's grip and then crushed by it.

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"Burns's distinctive voice-combining that of an experienced practitioner, a legal scholar, and a philosopher-is immensely engaging, deeply serious, and consequential. He has a remarkable, almost kaleidoscopic ability to bring together, while respecting the differences, the very particular nightmare of Kafka's work, the ideas of the great philosophers, and the daily injustices of American law today, all while insisting that we know, and should do, better." (Winnifred Fallers Sullivan, Indiana University Bloomington)"

Kafkas Law The Trial and American Criminal

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      Publisher: The University of Chicago Press
      Publication Date: 02/09/2014
      ISBN13: 9780226167473, 978-0226167473
      ISBN10: 022616747X
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      Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000 Literary studies: fiction Criminal law: procedure and offences

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      Shows how The Trial provides an uncanny lens through which to consider flaws in the American criminal justice system today. The author begins with the story, at once funny and grim, of Josef K, caught in the Law's grip and then crushed by it.

      Trade Review
      "Burns's distinctive voice-combining that of an experienced practitioner, a legal scholar, and a philosopher-is immensely engaging, deeply serious, and consequential. He has a remarkable, almost kaleidoscopic ability to bring together, while respecting the differences, the very particular nightmare of Kafka's work, the ideas of the great philosophers, and the daily injustices of American law today, all while insisting that we know, and should do, better." (Winnifred Fallers Sullivan, Indiana University Bloomington)"

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