The Trial

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Summary: Read this
Review: I red many books I my life, I studied literature for many years, and this book is the greatest one I ever red.

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Summary: Walking a tunnel of darkness with no light at the end.
Review: Never have I read a novelist who has offered so narrow yet profound a vision.Kafka's world is like walking a corridor darkening with every step.Descriptions of life are faint to the point of dissapearance.All that is registered is the concern of the main individual,who is truly a child of the world that intoxicates him in perspirating delusion.No work of modern realistic horror comes close to this,an incessant outpouring of mankind's bizarre but hidden dillema's that are regularly met in everyday lives but fully realized in this underground work of chanelling digression.

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Summary: Justice Thomas, now I understand
Review: Then-nominee Clarence Thomas said during his Supreme Court confirmation hearing "This is Kafkaesque." Now I understand what you meant Justice Thomas, oh boy do I. This is an outstanding book that explains the processes of the mind and the soul of a innocent man accused by a bizarre, bureaucratized, deformed system.

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Summary: The Trial: despair
Review: As a reader who is more comfortable with a Sports Illustrated in his hand than a novel, Kafka's disturbing story of K. and his omnipresent society forced me to think. Was K. a victim of the court which oppressed him, or was he tormented by his own paranoya. Was the story his reality or a lost journey into his depressed and deranged mind?

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Summary: Unbelievable up to date !
Review: I live now 3 years in Moscow, as a westerner, this book is still worth reading in this country. Nothing has changed here except the names. The situation described could be today - think on the Nikitin trial in St. Petersburg, or the American technician in Rostov with the GPS device... considered now as a very secretive spying device ???

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Summary: The Trial
Review: I read The Trial for the first time. I began read the book ferverishly. After I was done, I was still brooding over the book. The character of "K" was a very compeling and moody person. I was left with questions unanswered. This was the best part. I was left contemplating the existence of man and thought.

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Summary: Am I dreaming, or is this real?
Review: Have you ever bolted upright out of a nightmare and sat there breathing and sweating, wondering 'was that real?' Kafka's portrayal of a regular citizen caught in the faulty machinery of an incomprehensible legal system will give you that eerie nightmarish sensation. Like watching an accident about to happen with your feet rooted to the ground, you'll want to reach out and help the mian character -- but you can't! A must read. H

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Summary: The parable of an accused man.
Review: Franz Kafka's "The Trial" is much more a parable than it is an analogy or a novel of symbols. It is the story of all the errors and confusions, the excuses, elations, alarms, realizations, and changes of mind that a man who is accused of a crime can experience. One of the beauties of this novel is Kafka's style of fictionalizing his main character's actions as if the main character, Joseph k., were in a dream: Joseph has no clue during any event for what he will become involved with next; people he never met accost him and talk to him as though they knew him well; some of these people have no names, and some never reappear in the story; and there are no coincidences. Willa and Edwin Muir's translation is the best edition of "The Trial." A reader can move through sentance after sentence, even when these are sewn together with parenthetical phrases and subordinate clauses, and understand everything. "The Trial" is a good choice for any reader who has read, say, Kafka's "The Judgement" or "Metamorphosis" and now wants to read one of his large works. Edward Grosek. Northern Illinois University

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Summary: Kafka's haunting novel is more than just a tale...
Review: In fact, "The Trial" is Kafka himself: the tomented and melancholy man who wrote to achieve the purpose of relieving the despair and unconscious elements his dark mind housed. His mind and thought is written on the 200 pages of "The Trial" and revealed through the acts and thoughts of the main character, Joseph K. It indeed is a masterpiece, and every Kafka scholar should read this book which is by far, his greatest novel

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Summary: An existentialist creed in poetic prose
Review: The Trial is the primary work which has helped spawn the epithet Kafkaesque, which refers to any situation that is both profoundly absurd and undeniably human. The aesthetic of the apocalyptic fairy tale that is common in all of Kafka's works, with the possible exception of Amerika, pervades the Trial, in which Joseph K. is arrested and tried for an unknown crime by and unknown court that consists of an endless chain of higher powers. The trial is essential Kafka that is extremely readable