The Trial

11 hrs. 7 min.

Romance & Prose

Language Russian

Author Franz Kafka

Narrator Evgeny Ternovsky

Description

Waking up on his thirtieth birthday, Josef—under unclear circumstances—finds himself inside a bureaucratic judicial machine. Like in a terrifying psychodelic dream, Josef wanders through this mechanism, trying to change something—anything—in his case, in his Process. The entire way of thinking and existence of C. changes inexorably, though subtly. Unsure of himself and of what is happening, as if not entirely obvious, but with the inevitability of fate, C. sinks into a strange nightmare of hopelessness imposed by the Process. The order of things, the logic of the Process are hidden from Josef; nothing depends on him, and all that remains for him is one obvious option—to submit to fate without resistance…