Trial

In *The Trial*, the story spans a full year.
Josef K. is arrested on the morning of his 30th birthday. Strangely, he is not deprived of his freedom but is merely required to attend periodic trials; on the eve of his 31st birthday, K. is arrested again, and this time he is secretly murdered. During that year, no one tells him what crime he has committed, and he himself believes he is innocent. However, as long as the trial is ongoing, he is forced to run around dealing with the case. He obtains much information about the court and the law from his lawyer, the court painter, the priest, and others. Yet, the more K. learns, the more confused and helpless he becomes, until a sharp knife is plunged into his heart, bringing the trial to an end.
*The Trial* is Franz Kafka's most famous and also most difficult novel, written by the doctor of law. Philosopher Alfred North Whitehead once highly praised it: "All Western philosophy is but a footnote to Plato; similarly, all discourse on Western law is but a footnote to Kafka."

2018-04-01

时代文艺出版社

222

9787538756562