# The Trial

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- Book: [The Trial](https://www.bookquiver.com/franz-kafka/the-trial) ([The Trial.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/franz-kafka/the-trial.md))
- Authors: [Franz Kafka](https://www.bookquiver.com/franz-kafka)
- Publisher: vintage_classics
- ISBN: 978-00-9942-864-0
- Pages: 224
- Published: 2019-04-04
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: Softcover

## Description

‘It is not necessary to accept everything as true, one must only accept it as necessary’ Rediscover Kafka's classic work of psychological horror . The Trial is the terrifying tale of Joseph K, a respectable functionary in a bank, who is suddenly arrested and must defend his innocence against a charge about which he can get no information. A nightmare vision of the excesses of modern bureaucracy wedded to the insanity of twentieth-century totalitarianism has resonated with readers for generations. WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY PHILLIPE SANDS