Franz Kafka
THE TRIAL
Hardcover
(Easton Press Aug. 16, 1992)
, Limited edition
Factory sealed! The Trial is a novel written by Franz Kafka in 1914 and 1915 but not published until 1925. One of Kafka's best-known works, it tells the story of a man arrested and prosecuted by a remote, inaccessible authority, with the nature of his crime revealed neither to him nor the reader. After Kafka's death in 1924 his friend and literary executor Max Brod edited the text for publication In 1999, the book was listed in Le Monde's 100 Books of the Century and as No. 2 of the Best German Novels of the Twentieth Century.