The Trial: A New Translation Based on the Restored Text Franz Kafka, Idris Parry ebook#
Page: 208
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ISBN: 9780241678893
Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group
This disturbing and vastly influential novel has been interpreted on many levels of structure and symbol; but most commentators agree that the book explores the themes of guilt, anxiety, and moral impotency in the face of some ambiguous force. Joseph K. is an employee in a bank, a man without particular qualities or abilities. He could be anyone, and in some ways he is everyone. His inconsequence makes doubly strange his arrest by the officer of the court in the large city where K. lives. He tries in vain to discover how he has aroused the suspicion of the court. His honesty is conventional; his sins, with Elsa the waitress, are conventional; and he has no striking or dangerous ambitions. He can only ask questions, and receives no answers that clarify the strange world of courts and court functionaries in which he is compelled to wander. The plight of Joseph K., consumed by guilt and condemned for a crime he does not understand by a court with which he cannot communicate, is a profound and disturbing image of man in the modern world. There are no formal charges, no procedures, and little information to guide the defendant. One of the most unsettling aspects of the novel is the continual juxtaposition of alternative hypotheses, multiple explanations, different interpretations of cause and effect, and the uncertainty it breeds. The whole rational structure of the world is undermined.The trial : a new translation, based on the restored text "Written in 1914 but not published until 1925, a year after Kafka's death, The Trial is the terrifying tale of Josef K., a respectable bank officer who is The Trial: A New Translation Based on the Restored Text The Trial: A New Translation Based on the Restored Text (The Schocken Kafka Library) (Paperback) ; Praise For… "Kafka's 'legalese' is The Trial: A New Translation Based on the Restored Text The Trial: A New Translation Based on the Restored Text (The Schocken Kafka Library) (Paperback) ; Praise For… "Kafka's 'legalese' is The trial : a new translation, based on the restored text The trial : a new translation, based on the restored text / Franz Kafka ; translated and with a preface by Breon Mitchell. Kafka, Franz, 1883-1924 (author.). The Trial: A New Translation Based on the Restored Text From the author of The Metamorphosis. Written in 1914, The Trial is the terrifying tale of Josef K., a respectable bank officer who is suddenly The Trial: A New Translation Based on the Restored Text The Trial: A New Translation Based on the Restored Text (The Schocken Kafka Library) (Paperback) Not currently on the shelf, but we can order The Trial: A New Translation Based on the Restored Text The Trial: A New Translation Based on the Restored Text (The Schocken Kafka Library) (Paperback). The Trial: A New Translation Based on the Restored TextA New Translation Based on the Restored Text by Franz This new edition is based upon the work of an international team of experts who have restored the text, the sequence of chapters, and their division to create a Kafka Franz Breon Mitchell (10 results) Trial : A New Translation Based on the Restored Text by Kafka, Franz; Mitchell, Breon and a great selection of related books, art and collectibles available The Trial: A New Translation Based on the Restored Text