{"product_id":"the-trial","title":"The Trial","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eWritten between 1914 and 1915 and published posthumously in 1925, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThe Trial\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e is one of Franz Kafka’s most haunting explorations of power, guilt and the absurdity of modern life. Its protagonist, Josef K., is a bank official who finds himself arrested one morning, though no one will tell him what crime he has committed. As he attempts to understand the proceedings against him, he is drawn into a bewildering world of courts, officials and obscure procedures, where authority is everywhere yet never fully visible.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eLeft unfinished at Kafka’s death, the novel was assembled and published by his friend Max Brod. Its oppressive atmosphere and strange, dark humour give form to the anxieties of an individual confronted by an incomprehensible system, while its reflections on justice, guilt and power have made it one of the defining works of literary modernism. Both an unsettling psychological portrait and a profound parable of bureaucracy, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThe Trial\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e remains remarkably resonant in its vision of a world governed by rules no one can explain.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cspan\u003eFrom the book\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cspan\u003e“It is not necessary to accept everything as true, one must only accept it as necessary.”\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e— Franz Kafka, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThe Trial\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cspan\u003eOn \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThe Trial\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cspan\u003e“No summary can convey the atmosphere which Kafka cunningly distills.”\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e— Louis Kronenberger, The New York Times Book Review\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Gardner's EU","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":64183332831562,"sku":null,"price":0.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/thelamppostparis.com\/products\/the-trial","provider":"The Lamp-Post Library \u0026 Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}