Book
The Trial
by Franz Kafka
- Published
- 1925
- Genre
- Classics
- Pages
- 255
- URL
- https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17690.The_Trial?ref=nav_sb_ss_2_10
Reading measures
- Lexile
- 1150L
- Suggested reading age
- ages 16–18
- Ambleside year
- Year 11 onwards · ages 16–19
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Written in 1914 but not published until 1925, a year after Kafka’s death, The Trial is the terrifying tale of Josef K., a respectable bank officer who is suddenly and inexplicably arrested and must defend himself against a charge about which he can get no information. Whether read as an existential tale, a parable, or a prophecy of the excesses of modern bureaucracy wedded to the madness of totalitarianism, The Trial has resonated with chilling truth for generations of readers.
ISBN
- ISBN-13
- 9780805209990
- ISBN-10
- 0805209999
Tags
CourtroomFictionLawSocial IssuesSocial Studies-Government