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It is not necessary to accept everything as true, one must only accept it as necessary'

Rediscover Kafka''s classic work of psychological horror.

The Trial is the terrifying tale of Joseph K, a respectable functionary in a bank, who is suddenly arrested and must defend his innocence against a charge about which he can get no information. A nightmare vision of the excesses of modern bureaucracy wedded to the insanity of twentieth-century totalitarianism has resonated with readers for generations.

WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY PHILLIPE SANDS



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No other voice has borne truer witness to the dark of our times -- George Steiner

The Trial

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    A Paperback / softback by Franz Kafka, Edwin Muir, Willa Muir

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      Publisher Penguin Random House Group
      Imprint Vintage Classics
      Published 9 April 2001
      ISBN-13 9780099428640
      978-0099428640
      ISBN-10 0099428644
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      Fiction Contemporary Fiction Books by Franz Kafka

      Description

      Book Synopsis

      It is not necessary to accept everything as true, one must only accept it as necessary'

      Rediscover Kafka''s classic work of psychological horror.

      The Trial is the terrifying tale of Joseph K, a respectable functionary in a bank, who is suddenly arrested and must defend his innocence against a charge about which he can get no information. A nightmare vision of the excesses of modern bureaucracy wedded to the insanity of twentieth-century totalitarianism has resonated with readers for generations.

      WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY PHILLIPE SANDS



      Trade Review
      It is the fate and perhaps the greatness of that work that it offers everything and confirms nothing -- Albert Camus
      The Dante of the Twentieth Century -- W. H. Auden
      No other voice has borne truer witness to the dark of our times -- George Steiner

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