Folio Society Published Works Number 2443
Kafka, Franz - The Trial
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Kafka, Franz - The Trial (Published in by The Folio Society in 2011. Introduced by John Banville. Bound in paper, printed with a design by Bill Bragg Set in Elysium. Frontispiece and 6 colour illustrations. Book size: 9” x 61/4”, 212 pages.'Somebody must have made a false accusation against Josef K., for he was arrested one morning without having done anything wrong.' A respectable young banker, Josef K., is arrested on his 30th birthday and never ?nds out why. After his arrest, K. still goes to work, is visited by his uncle and even carries on abortive romances with various women. Yet all the while, the noose is tightening ... Kafka powerfully captures the plight of a helpless individual caught up in the toils of a meaningless, implacable system. As in a nightmare, K. finds that rooms change con?guration without warning; people behave according to a bizarre logic; K. knows things without knowing why or how. Yet the overall effect is of inescapable reality. In 1912, Kafka was introduced to a young office worker named Felice Bauer, and they entered into a long and disastrous on–off engagement. Infuriated by his vacillations, Felice's family called a meeting that Kafka described as a 'tribunal'. Introducer John Banville shows how this experience inspired The Trial, and how the novel perfectly illustrates Freud's de?nition of the uncanny as 'the familiar re-presented to us in unfamiliar guise'. This edition is illustrated by Bill Bragg and translated by Idris Parry. )
