![]() ![]() energetically protests his treatment and denounces the corruption of the system. Eventually a washerwoman directs him to a crowded meeting hall, where the examining magistrate scolds K. is not informed of the time that he is expected to appear, but he goes on Sunday morning to the address he was given, which proves to be that of a large tenement building. goes to the bank where he works and is later told that a series of hearings will be taking place on Sundays. that he is free to continue living his life as usual. ![]() The inspector does not know what the charges are but tells K. He is shortly summoned before the inspector, who is in the bedroom of another tenant. The narrative emerges from the book’s opening sentence: “Somebody must have slandered Joseph K., for one morning, without having done anything wrong, he was arrested.” It is K.’s 30th birthday, and a pair of guards have arrived at his boardinghouse to inform him that he is under arrest. It is often considered to be an imaginative anticipation of totalitarianism. One of Kafka’s major works, and perhaps his most pessimistic, this surreal story of a young man who finds himself caught up in the mindless bureaucracy of the law has become synonymous with the anxieties and sense of alienation of the modern age and with an ordinary person’s struggle against an unreasoning and unreasonable authority. The Trial, novel by visionary German-language writer Franz Kafka, originally published posthumously in 1925.
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