The Trial

9 hrs. 19 min.

Classics

Language Russian

Author Franz Kafka

Narrator Pavel Lomakin

Description

“The Trial” became a symbol of Kafka’s creativity, but the writer himself left no clear instructions for reconstructing the plot: the chapters were kept in separate envelopes and were not numbered. The novel is a sort of symbol of Franz Kafka’s work. Josef K. is a rational character in a ridiculous society. His ordinary—and even in some ways boring—life went on as usual until he was notified that proceedings had begun against him. The absurdity of what happens is frightening precisely in its ordinariness and strange logic—the horror against which the hero is powerless. Who is the judge he’s never seen? Where is the higher court he never reached? He is guilty simply because any person can be guilty of something.