The Trial (German title: Der Process) is one of Franz 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.

On his thirtieth birthday, the chief financial officer of a bank, Josef K., is unexpectedly arrested by two unidentified agents from an unspecified agency for an unspecified crime. The agents' boss later arrives and holds a mini-tribunal in the room of K.'s neighbor, Fräulein Bürstner. K. is not taken away, however, but left ?free? and told to await instructions from the Committee of Affairs. He goes to work, and that night apologizes to Fräulein Bürstner for the intrusion into her room. At the end of the conversation he suddenly kisses her.

Like Kafka's other novels, The Trial was never completed, although it does include a chapter which brings the story to an end. Because of this, there are some inconsistencies and discontinuities in narration within the novel.

The book was listed in Le Monde's 100 Books of the Century and the Best German Novels of the Twentieth Century.

Médias	Livres Paperback Book (Livre avec couverture souple et dos collé)
Validé	1 septembre 2014
ISBN13	9781499764253
Éditeurs	CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platf
Pages	174
Dimensions	11 × 152 × 229 mm · 263 g
Langue et grammaire	English
Contributeur	David Wyllie

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