The Trial

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Franz Kafka George Steiner (Professor University of Geneva and Fellow Churchill College, University of Cambridge)

The Trial

Franz Kafka, George Steiner (Professor University of Geneva and Fellow Churchill College, University of Cambridge), Willa Muir , Edwin Muir

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German

Everyman Hardcovers
15 May 1992

Series: Everyman’s Library Contemporary Classics

The story of the mysterious indictment, trial and reckoning forced upon Kafka's Joseph K. is one of the twentieth century's master parables which has influenced almost every major writer since. By rendering the absurd and the terrifying with scrupulous factual accuracy and evenness of tone, Kafka presents the world we recognize in a gripping narrative which is also a revelation of its hidden significance.

By: Franz Kafka
Introduction by: George Steiner (Professor University of Geneva and Fellow Churchill College University of Cambridge)
Translated by: Willa Muir, Edwin Muir
Imprint: Everyman Hardcovers
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Edition: New edition
Dimensions: Height: 212mm, Width: 135mm, Spine: 25mm
Weight: 487g
ISBN: 9781857150759
ISBN 10: 1857150759
Series: Everyman’s Library Contemporary Classics
Pages: 352
Publication Date: 15 May 1992
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Reviews for The Trial

Following closely this year's new version of The Castle, here is another in a series of retranslations based on restored texts assembled from Kafka's original manuscripts and notes. Mitchell's translation also proposes to replace an earlier one (by Willa and Edwin Muir) said to have been unduly influenced by the efforts of Kafka's friend and literary executor Max Brod to improve the former's chaotic unfinished manuscripts. The Trial (1924) - whose cryptic portrayal of a bank clerk interrogated for an undisclosed offense has become perhaps the dominant image of modernist absurdity - holds up well in a version characterized by long, crowded paragraphs and virtually incantatory accusatory repetitions that confer equal emphasis on the novel's despairing comedy and aura of unspecific menace. Admirers of Kafka's fiction will not want to miss it. (Kirkus Reviews)