Novel · 1925
The Trial
Franz Kafka
Aya Saleh · Ink & Ivy
Novel · 1925 · German · Modern
The Trial
Josef K. is arrested one morning without being told the charge.
ModernismAllegoryLawGuiltBureaucracy
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'Before the Law' is the key: the door was always meant for him, and it is now being shut. Guilt without content, procedure without end.
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