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The Trial

Franz Kafka

231 pages

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Byzantine and claustrophobic novel of a man arrested by the secret police and charged with an unspecified crime. Unable to defend himself and disorientated by the legal process at work around him the man soon becomes apathetic and acquiescent, accepting his eventual sentence as inevitable.

Themes
Dark & BroodingStrange & UnsettlingMysteriousThought-ProvokingWhat Does It All Mean?Bureaucratic absurdityExistential alienationInescapable guilt
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