The Trial Introduction by George Steiner

by Kafka, Franz; Muir, Willa; Muir, Edwin; Steiner, George

• ISBN13: 9780679409946
• ISBN10: 0679409947
• Edition: Reprint
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1992-06-30
• Publisher: Everyman's Library

Summary

The story of the mysterious indictment, trial, and reckoning forced upon Joseph K. in Franz Kafka's The Trial is one of the twentieth century's master parables, reflecting the central spiritual crises of modern life. Kafka's methodone that has influenced, in some way, almost every writer of substance who followed himwas to render the absurd and the terrifying convincing by a scrupulous, hyperreal matter-of-factness of tone and treatment. He thereby imparted to his work a level of seriousness normally associated with civilization's most cherished poems and religious texts. Translated by Willa and Edwin Muir

Author Biography

Breon Mitchell has received the ATA German Literary Prize, among other translation awards. He is a professor of Germanic studies and comparative literature at Indiana University.<br><br><br><i>From the Trade Paperback edition.</i>

Table of Contents

Introduction	p. vii
	p. 1
The Arrest
Conversation with Frau Grubach
Then Fraulein Burstner
	p. 31
First Interrogation
	p. 49
In the Empty Courtroom
The Student
The Offices
	p. 74
Fraulein Burstner's Friend
	p. 83
The Whipper
	p. 91
K.'s Uncle
Leni
	p. 113
Lawyer
Manufacturer
Painter
	p. 166
Block, the Tradesman
Dismissal of the Lawyer
	p. 197
In the Cathedral
	p. 223
The End
The Unfinished Chapters
On the Way to Elsa	p. 233
Journey to His Mother	p. 235
Prosecuting Counsel	p. 239
The House	p. 245
Conflict with the Assistant Manager	p. 250
A Fragment	p. 256
The Passages Delected by the Author	p. 257
Postscripts
To the First Edition (1925)	p. 264
To the Second Edition (1935)	p. 272
To the Third Edition (1946)	p. 274
Excerpts from Kafka's Diaries	p. 275
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