The Trial: A New Translation Based on the Restored Text (The Schocken Kafka Library) Kindle Edition

This is literally my favorite book of all time. I orginally read it in German, it's interesting the way it's translated. It's incredible for just the simple reason that you can completely shuffle the chapters, and the narrative remains completely intact. Also, it was revolutionary in its way of describing bureaucracy. The book arrived on time, and in perfect condition. Would absolutely recommend to any serious reader.

Books I actually enjoyed reading reference Kafka...so I picked "The Trial" to understand why. This is hardly a compelling book to read. Who knows how much smoother it would've read had Kafka lived to finish it. That said, the entire novel felt oppressive, creating guilt where there is none; a trial and its ensemble of guards, examining magistrates, lawyers, etc.; the accused and the "power" of doormen, the secrecy and judgment of a random moment... Admirably, Josef K., Kafka's protagonist, managed not to succumb to groveling as did the merchant...but in the end, he still dies, "like a dog." At the very least, I now have some basis for understanding any future reading that may mention Kafka or Kafkaesque.

Fascinating twisted story of a bank executive that gets accused of a crime........but what crime? I now can understand where the term Kafkaesque originates.

I like Kafka. O enjoy the ridiculousness of life as humans tend to make it. As K criticizes everyone for the very things he does, you can't help but look at yourself and contemplate who you really are. I appreciated the humor and the absurdity.

The futility of K's "trial" is set from the beginning. It makes what happens from then till the end, although rooted in realism, so absurdly surreal. It's so very darkly comical that I found it equal parts horrific, and hilarious. I think this book pairs well with The Castle as a good entry point to people looking for books that take a look at how social anxieties were being explored in fiction around the time of the Wiemar Republic. I think it can give insight to the same anxieties people have today.

Some say Kafka is the best author of the twentieth century. I agree with that. For someone to express that kind of suffering, of the kind he is talking about, they would have had to experience it. And I think that only the people who had also experienced that cruel, back stabbing,sly, deliberateness, leaving the victim in limbo but certain of a dark end, even know what he is describing. .His expose' on just how much evil people can visit on another has a depth no one could ever express. But Franz Joseph Kafka comes so very close to doing just that..

If you want to read a book that makes you feel as if you are going crazy, then this is the one. It is a brilliant idea to have a respectable person accused of an undisclosed crime by the authorities and then never have the accusation fleshed out and decided. This is a book for literary scholars only.

This is one of the great, very influential narratives of 20th Century Western literature. Read it many times.Existential anxt may have come and gone. But Kafka's imagery lives on.This is one instance where asking if the writing is poor or great is meaningless.Is there violence? If bang bang your dead violence: No. If deeply alienating psychic violence: Yes in aces and spades.Is there sexual content? Soft porn bodice ripper? No - Existential torment imagery? YesHow is it narrated? From inside a deep echo chamber by a psychic spider trapped in a glass jar with smooth sides.

Only complaint being, not to read the author's note at the beginning of the book, as this can spoil the ending!!!

It came with a completely different cover art than shown. Otherwise book is in good shape

Very good translation by Breon Mitchell. The product is exactly like what’s portrayed here. They could have improved the quality of the binding. Thanks Bookswagon.

This version has the restored text with six fragments of chapters. Loved the product.

The deckle edges (rough edges) are not expected, since there is no clear indication.P.S. The Castle bought on Book Depository doesn’t have deckle edges, so I think it is a binding error.