The Trial by Franz Kafka [DEFINITIVE EDITION PAPERBACK] 1988 • Schocken Books

The Trial by Franz Kafka

DEFINITIVE EDITION TRADE PAPERBACK [1988] SCHOCKEN BOOKS

Rare 1988 Shocken re-issue with great modern art cover design by Anthony Russo.  2nd print.

Vintage trade paperback in excellent condition.   Shelf wear to cover.  Reads like new!

One of the great novels of the twentieth century, The Trial is the terrifying story of Joseph K., respectable functionary in a bank who is suddenly arrested and must spend the rest of his life fighting a charge against him about which he can get no information.

This definitive edition includes Kafka's own drawings as well as excerpts from his diaries during the period in which he wrote The Trial.

"Here we are taken to the limits of human thought. Indeed, everything in this work is, in the true sense, essential. It states the problem of the absurd in its entirety. - Albert Camus