The Trial

ByFranz Kafka,Willa Muir(Translator),+1 more

1925 • 255 pages

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Average rating3.9

Byzantine and claustrophobic novel of a man arrested by the secret police and charged with an unspecified crime. Unable to defend himself and disorientated by the legal process at work around him the man soon becomes apathetic and acquiescent, accepting his eventual sentence as inevitable.

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Antonio Carioca

“No,” said the priest, “you don't need to accept everything as true, you only have to accept it as necessary.” “Depressing view,” said K. “The lie made into the rule of the world.”

Bureaucracy sucks.

8/10

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