The Trial - Couverture souple

Kafka, Franz

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0805210407 ISBN 13 : 9780805210408

Editeur : Schocken, 1995

Synopsis

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“‘[I]t seemed as though the shame was to outlive him.’ With these words The Trial ends. Kafka’s shame then is no more personal than the life and thought which govern it and which he describes thus: ‘He does not live for the sake of his own life, he does not think for the sake of his own thought. He feels as though he were living and thinking under the constraint of a family . . . Because of this unknown family . . . he cannot be released.’”
—Walter Benjamin
 
“Breon Mitchell’s translation is an accomplishment of the highest order that will honor Kafka far into the twenty-first century.”
—Walter Abish, author of How German Is It

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

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Schocken
• Date d'édition: 1995
• ISBN 10: 0805210407
• ISBN 13: 9780805210408
• Reliure: Broché
• Langue: anglais
• Nombre de pages: 312