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“Someone must have been telling lies about Josef K., for without having done anything wrong he was arrested one fine morning.”
— Franz Kafka
Why It's Lindy
"Kafkaesque" is in the dictionary — the rarest marker of an author's lasting influence. The bureaucratic nightmare K. faces feels more contemporary with every passing year.
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Josef K. is arrested and prosecuted by an inaccessible authority for an unspecified crime. The foundational text of existentialist fiction.
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Why should I read The Trial?
"Kafkaesque" is in the dictionary — the rarest marker of an author's lasting influence. The bureaucratic nightmare K. faces feels more contemporary with every passing year.
What is The Trial about?
Josef K. is arrested and prosecuted by an inaccessible authority for an unspecified crime. The foundational text of existentialist fiction.
