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by Franz Kafka (Author) "Someone must have slandered Josef K., for one morning, without having done anything truly wrong, he was arrested..." (more)
Key Phrases: court usher, examining magistrate, junk room, Frau Grubach, Franz Kafka, Frdulein Montag (more...)
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The story of The Trial's publication is almost as fascinating as the novel itself. Kafka intended his parable of alienation in a mysterious bureaucracy to be burned, along with the rest of his diaries and manuscripts, after his death in 1924. Yet his friend Max Brod pressed forward to prepare The Trial and the rest of his papers for publication. When the Nazis came to power, publication of Jewish writers such as Kafka was forbidden; Kafka's writings, many of which have distinctively Jewish themes, did not find a broad audience until after World War II. (Hannah Arendt once observed that although "during his lifetime he could not make a decent living, [Kafka] will now keep generations of intellectuals both gainfully employed and well-fed.") Among the current crop of Kafka heirs is Breon Mitchell, the translator of this edition of The Trial. Rather than tidying up Kafka's unconventional grammar and punctuation (as previous translators have done), Mitchell captures the loose, uneasy, even uncomfortable constructions of Kafka's original story. His translation technique is the only way to convey the comedy and confusion of this narrative, in which Josef K., "without having done anything truly wrong," is arrested, tried, convicted and executed--on a charge that is never disclosed to him. --Michael Joseph Gross --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

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Kafka's final work was left unfinished at the time of his 1924 death, and the original 1925 and subsequent editions were edited according to the standards of the day. This edition endeavors to restore the text as closely as possible to the original manuscript. According to the publisher, "This translation makes slight changes in the chapter divisions and sequence of chapter fragments." In addition to the text, this volume includes a bibliography and a chronology of the author's life.
Copyright 1998 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

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Product Details
  • Paperback: 304 pages
  • Publisher: Schocken; New Ed edition (May 25, 1999)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 0805209999
  • ISBN-13: 978-0805209990
  • Product Dimensions: 8.1 x 5.2 x 0.6 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 9 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
  • Average Customer Review: 4.4 out of 5 stars 36 customer reviews (36 customer reviews)
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First Sentence:
Someone must have slandered Josef K., for one morning, without having done anything truly wrong, he was arrested. Read the first page
Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
court usher, examining magistrate, junk room
Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Frau Grubach, Franz Kafka, Frdulein Montag, Felice Bauer, Franti Kafka, Herr Huld, Julie Wohryzek, Max Brod
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