The Trial by Franz Kafka (Close Reading)

“Someone must have been spreading slander about Josef K., for one morning he was arrested, though he had done nothing wrong.”

This famous sentence begins the haunting tale of one individual trapped in a bureaucratic legal system that can't or won't describe the charges against him, or the legal code he is being judged by.

Written between 1914 and 1915, and published in 1925 after Kafka's death, “The Trial” explores themes of Absurdity, Bureaucracy, and Meaninglessness in the postmodern world.

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