During that time it has been considered a literary classic, it has been studied and debated, it has been included in Le Monde’s 100 Books of the Century and it was voted the Second Best German Novel of the Twentieth Century. The Trial was written over 100 years ago and published over 90 years ago. Published the year after the author’s death, but written ten years earlier, The Trial is the most acclaimed of Kafka’s three novels, and is both a haunting meditation on freedom and the powerlessness of the individual in the face of state power, and an ominous pre-figuration of the totalitarian excesses of the twentieth century. finds his life taken over by the opaque bureaucratic procedures and is tormented by the psychological pressures exerted by his legal nightmare. Although he never comes to know the particulars of his case, Josef K. He is told that he will be set free, but must make regular appearances at a court in the attic of a tenement building while his trial proceeds. is suddenly arrested by mysterious agents for an unspecified crime. On his thirtieth birthday, the bank clerk Josef K. UK Postage £3.40 Airmail to Rest of the World £20.00 (except the EU, where we no longer export due to slow and lost deliveries, and excessive and unpredictable charges since Brexit) We only use airmail as surface mail can take up to 10 weeks.Released – 22nd March 2018 (First ed 1925) In Kafka, it is intrinsic to human existence.' This edition is illustrated by Bill Bragg and translated by Michael Hofmann. Their differences however, he says, are equally revealing: 'In Dickens, the source of cruelty is largely social and therefore amenable to correction.

In his introduction, James Lasdun provides a fascinating exploration of two writers who shared 'an instinctive sympathy with the downtrodden an abiding interest in the effect of large, impersonal forces on small, vulnerable human beings'. Part social satire, part coming-of-age novel, Amerika is lighter in tone than the rest of Kafka's ?ction, and owes a debt to a writer he hugely admired: Charles Dickens. Kafka himself never visited America, and the novel contains many charming idiosyncrasies: San Francisco is situated on the east coast, and a bridge connects New York with Boston. A picaresque and idiosyncratic romp, it follows the adventures of Karl Rossmann, sent away from home after getting a maid pregnant, as he leaves Europe and travels across America.

Amerika was the ?rst of Kafka's novels, but the last to be published. Bound in paper, printed with a design by Bill Bragg Set in Elysium.

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