The Trial: Introduction by George Steiner (Everyman's Library Contemporary Classics Series) (Hardcover)

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The Trial: Introduction by George Steiner (Everyman's Library Contemporary Classics Series) (Hardcover)

By Franz Kafka, Willa Muir (Translated by), Edwin Muir (Translated by), George Steiner (Introduction by)

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The story of the mysterious indictment, trial, and reckoning forced upon Joseph K—one of the twentieth century’s master parables from one of the greatest writers of the twentieth century, the author of The Metamorphosis. Translated by Willa and Edwin Muir

The Trial reflects the central spiritual crises of modern life. Kafka’s method—one that has influenced, in some way, almost every writer of substance who followed him—was 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.

Everyman's Library pursues the highest production standards, printing on acid-free cream-colored paper, with full-cloth cases with two-color foil stamping, decorative endpapers, silk ribbon markers, European-style half-round spines, and a full-color illustrated jacket. Contemporary Classics include an introduction, a select bibliography, and a chronology of the author's life and times.
Franz Kafka was born in Prague in 1883 and died of tuberculosis in a sanatorium near Vienna in 1924. After earning a law degree in 1906, he worked for most of his adult life at the Worker's Accident Insurance Institute in Prague. Only a small portion of Kafka's writings were published during his lifetime. He left instructions for his friend and literary executor Max Brod to destroy all of his unpublished work after his death, instructions Brod famously ignored.

Product Details ISBN: 9780679409946
ISBN-10: 0679409947
Publisher: Everyman's Library
Publication Date: June 30th, 1992
Pages: 344
Language: English
Series: Everyman's Library Contemporary Classics Series
“This short novel has passed into far more than classical literary status.... Countless are those who have not read it but who are familiar with its main outline and situations...In more than one hundred languages, the epithet ‘kafkaesque’ attaches to the constants of inhumanity and absurdity in our times.... In this diffusion of the kafkaesque into so many recesses of our private and public existence, The Trial plays a commanding role.”
—from the Introduction by George Steiner