Original German title: Der Process, The Trial is a novel written by Franz Kafka between 1914 and 1915 and published posthumously in 1925. One of Kafka's best-known works, it tells the story of Josef K., a man arrested and prosecuted by a remote, inaccessible authority, with the nature of his crime revealed neither to him nor to the reader. The book was hugely influenced by Dostoyevsky's Crime and Punishment and The Brothers Karamazov.
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