Written in 1914, The Trial is the terrifying tale of Josef K., a respectable bank officer who is suddenly arrested and must defend himself against a charge about which he can get no information. Kafka’s nightmare has resonated with chilling truth for generations of readers.

The Trial

Literature & Fiction

KAFKA, FRANZ

Contemporary

Vintage Classics

Both Joseph K in The Trial and K in The Castle are victims of anonymous governing forces beyond their control. Both are atomized, estranged and rootless citizens deceived by authoritarian power. Whereas Joseph K is relentlessly hunted down for a crime that remains nameless, K ceaselessly attempts to enter the castle, and so belong somewhere. Both novels may be read as powerful allegories of totalitarian government. In America, Karl Rossman experiences Oedipal and cultural isolation, and finds that “America” is never quite as real as it seems.

The Complete Novels of Kafka

The Trial (Modern Classics)

British & Irish

Schocken Books

The castle (Penguin modern classics)

Classics

Penguin

The Diaries of Franz Kafka, 1910-23.

Brod, Max, Ed.

Penguin??Books

Text: English, German (translation)

Letters to Felice / Kafka's Other Trial (Penguin Modern Classics)

CANETTI, Elias

Wedding Preparations in the Country is a fragmented narrative by Franz Kafka, written between 1907 and 1909 and published posthumously. The story itself, namely the journey of the unhappy bridegroom Raban to his bride out in the country, is embedded in a meticulous description of his surroundings. This narrative was intended to be part of a novel. However, Kafka abandoned the project after multiple attempts.

Wedding Preparations in the Country (Modern Classics)

Penguin Books, Ltd.

(Book Jacket Status: Jacketed)Franz Kafka’s imagination so far outstripped the forms and conventions of the literary tradition he inherited that he was forced to turn that tradition inside out in order to tell his splendid, mysterious tales. Scrupulously naturalistic on the surface, uncanny in their depths, these stories represent the achieved art of a modern master who had the gift of making our problematic spiritual life palpable and real.This edition of his stories includes all his available shorter fiction in a collection edited, arranged, and introduced by Gabriel Josipovici in ways that bring out the writer’s extraordinary range and intensity of vision.Translated by Willa and Edwin Muir

The Collected Short Stories of Franz Kafka

Penguin Complete Short Stories of Franz Kafka

Short Stories & Anthologies

The Diaries of Franz Kafka 1910-1923 (Twentieth Century Classics S.)

Biographies & Memoirs

Penguin Classics

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