![]() ![]() ![]() Even though Kafka asked that his unfinished works be burned upon his death, his friend and literary executor Max Brod compiled the manuscript for publication by avant-garde publisher Verlag Die Schmiede. Written between 19, the manuscript (originally Der Process) remained unfinished during Kafka's lifetime. Published one year after Kafka's death, The Trial is one of Kafka's best-known and most characteristic works, as it is emblematic of the author's signature narrative premise of a solitary man futilely trying to find his way out of an absurd, nightmarish, and darkly comic predicament. ![]() The novel ends with K.'s abrupt execution, when two men hired by the court twist a knife into K.'s heart. attempts to fight the illogical accusation, the perplexing legal system steadily wears him down. Franz Kafka's 1925 novel The Trialis about Josef K., a banker who is prosecuted by a court he has never heard of for a crime that is never revealed. ![]()
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