The Trial: A New Translation Based on the Restored Text by Franz Kafka published by Schocken (1999)

It’s a very good book to read if you want to understand how one faces fears that come to life out of nowhere and how one should react. The nihilistic perspective of the story still matters, even though the book was published 100 years ago. --- Would you like me to make it sound a bit more literary, like a short review or reflection?

"The Trial," by Franz Kafka translated by Breon Mitchell One might find this book difficult to understand, but I suggest before you read any further to avoid the `Forward,' and delve right into the first chapter which is The Arrest. I found reading the book this way gave me hope of the injustice Josef K. endured. This is another form of Surveillance State writing without hope for any individual...interesting read and a fine drama. This is a dystopian novel of controlled society with many quirks as a THX-1138 film.

An excellent translation of an amazing, classic book. This deeply ambiguous masterpiece is unsettling as hell.

I have bought the wrong edition and there appears to be no recourse. Kindle needs to be more respectful of its readers regarding classical/historical works with many editions. If should provide more information as to the publisher, extent of contents ( introduction, interviews with with critics or others, notations, biography, etc.). This 2012 edition may be well translated as some of the cover critics say, but it is missing what are now considered to be some important interviews with some of his contemporaries as well as annotations at the end. I tried to return it for the version that does have call this, but do not seem to be able to. In addition, from the kindle snd Amazon writeups, I cannot even determine if that that edition is even provided to purchase or to get in Kindle.

This book is very prophetic and scary. This is the exact persecutions Christians are facing all over the world. We are being put in kangaroo courts and being accused of absurd charges that have no merit whatsoever. Liberals want to make it a crime to be a Christian. Our freedom of religion is being taken away. They're putting up a statue of Satan in Oklahoma's stakehouse! Not of the Ten Commandments, BUT OF SATAN! Read this book and open your eyes to whats going on in the world.

. . . but this is the first of his works that I've read and it's puzzling to me that I've waited so long! People taking advantage of this humble review can find a synopsis of The Trial just about anywhere: It's the tale of Josef K., a successful, self-centered, arrogant young man who is accused of an unspecified crime and becomes, shall we say, unravelled by the prosecution. Anybody who has had the pleasure of dealing with a bureaucracy will relate to and appreciate K.'s dilemma. Kafka has delivered a rich, compelling, well-paced story and I relish the thought that there is much, much that he has written for me to explore.

This is one of the great, very influential narratives of 20th Century Western literature. Read it many times. Existential anxt may have come and gone. But Kafka's imagery lives on. This is one instance where asking if the writing is poor or great is meaningless. Is there violence? If bang bang your dead violence: No. If deeply alienating psychic violence: Yes in aces and spades. Is there sexual content? Soft porn bodice ripper? No - Existential torment imagery? Yes How is it narrated? From inside a deep echo chamber by a psychic spider trapped in a glass jar with smooth sides.

You know the expression "I'll have what the gentleman on the floor is having?" I'd sooner have what Kafka was taking, although in his writing there may be no floor. People suddenly appear in corners previously vpod of human life, logical questions are never answered. We never find out why the protagonist was arrested. And I'm not even sure what happened to him in the end. Somehow the reading experience is enjoyable, however. And certainly one of a kind.

book is good but looks like returned or maybe handled harshly.

Wanted a hardcover of The Trial and was delighted to find one in print and available. But there should be a big red warning sign that this Simon & Brown verison is (or at least appears to be) one of those trash books published based on an online scanned text, like from Gutenberg or archive.org. Formatting is non-existent, every page just one big block of text, with minimal whitespace. Darn close to unreadable. I wouldn't be surprised if it is rife with typos, too, as many of these scanned texts are, though I refuse to read it and find out. This one's on its way to the library drop-off.