The Trial - Couverture souple

Kafka, Franz

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0099428644 ISBN 13 : 9780099428640

Editeur : Vintage Classics, 2001

Synopsis

The Trial (Vintage Classics)

A propos du livre

Biographie de l'auteur :

Franz Kafka (1883–1924) was born into a Jewish family in Prague. In 1906 he received a doctorate in jurisprudence, and for many years he worked a tedious job as a civil service lawyer investigating claims at the State Worker's Accident Insurance Institute. He never married, and published only a few slim volumes of stories during his lifetime. Meditation, a collection of sketches, appeared in 1912; The Stoker: A Fragment in 1913; Metamorphosis in 1915; The Judgement in 1916; In the Penal Colony in 1919; and A Country Doctor in 1920. The great novels were not published until after his death from tuberculosis: America, The Trial and The Castle.

Quatrième de couverture :

'It is the fate and perhaps the greatness of this work that it offers everything and confirms nothing'

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 mad agendas of twentieth-century totalitarian regimes.

'No other voice has borne truer witness ot the dark of our times' George Steiner

See also: Metamorphosis

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: Vintage Classics
• Date d'édition: 2001
• ISBN 10: 0099428644
• ISBN 13: 9780099428640
• Reliure: Broché
• Numéro d'édition: 1
• Nombre de pages: 224