Research Catalog

Title

The trial / Franz Kafka ; translated by Mike Mitchell ; with an introduction and notes by Ritchie Robertson.

Author

Kafka, Franz, 1883-1924

Publication

Oxford [England] ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2009.

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Holdings

Details

Additional Authors

Mitchell, Mike (Translator)

Description

xxxv, 191 p.; 20 cm.

Summary

One of the great works of the twentieth century, Kafka's The Trial has been read as a study of political power, a pessimistic religious parable, or a crime novel where the accused man is himself the problem. In it, a man wakes up one morning to find himself under arrest for an offence which is never explained. Faced with this ambiguous but threatening situation, Josef K. gradually succumbs to its psychological pressure. One of the iconic figures of modern world literature, Kafka writes about universal problems of guilt, responsibility, and freedom. He offers no solutions, but provokes his readers to arrive at meanings of their own. Mike Mitchell's translation captures Kafka's distinctive style. Based on the best available German text, it includes not only the main text but the chapters Kafka left incomplete. In his Introduction, Ritchie Robertson considers the many puzzles in the novel and the different interpretations to which the novel has been subjected. The book also includes a Biographical Preface, an up-to-date bibliography, and a chronology of Kafka's life. - Publisher.

Series Statement

Oxford world's classics

Uniform Title

• Prozess. English
• Oxford world's classics (Oxford University Press)

Alternative Title

Prozess.

Subject

Trials > Fiction

Genre/Form

• Allegories
• Fiction

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. [xxix]-xxxii).

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Biographical preface -- Introduction -- Note on the text -- Select bibliography -- A chronology of Franz Kafka -- The trial -- Explanatory notes.

ISBN

• 9780199238293 (pbk. : acid-free paper)
• 0199238294 (pbk. : acid-free paper)

LCCN

^^2009005382

OCLC

• 309835613
• SCSB-11394026

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library