The Trial - Couverture souple

Kafka, Franz

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1612931030 ISBN 13 : 9781612931036

Editeur : Tribeca Books, 2011

Synopsis

The story of The Trial's publication is almost as fascinating as the novel itself. Kafka intended his parable of alienation in a mysterious bureaucracy to be burned, along with the rest of his diaries and manuscripts, after his death in 1924. Yet his friend Max Brod pressed forward to prepare The Trial and the rest of his papers for publication.

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. Only a few of his friends knew that Kafka was also at work on the great novels that were published after his death from tuberculosis: America, The Trial, and The Castle. (20050121)

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: Tribeca Books
• Date d'édition: 2011
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1612931030
• ISBN 13: 9781612931036
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 160
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible