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The Trial: Popular Penguins
By (Author) Franz Kafka
Penguin Books Ltd
Penguin Books Ltd
28th June 2010
United Kingdom
Paperback
178
Width 111mm, Height 179mm, Spine 13mm
118g
'Somebody must have laid false information against Josef K., for he was arrested one morning without having done anything wrong.' From this first sentence onwards, Josef K. is on trial for his right to exist in a novel which, more than any other, is infinitely perceptive about the nature of terror and the futility of human life.
Franz Kafka (1883-1924) was born of Jewish parents in Prague. Several of his story collections were published in his lifetime and his novels, The Trial, The Castle, and Amerika, were published posthumously by his editor Max Brod.