The Trial

The Trial, published in German as Der Prozess, is a German-language novel written by Czech writer Franz Kafka in 1914 and 1915 and published posthumously on 26 April 1925. One of his best-known works, it tells the story of Josef K., a bank official arrested and prosecuted by an inaccessible authority whose nature of the crime he is accused of is revealed neither to him nor to the reader, as he tries to navigate an absurdly bureaucratic legal system while attempting to clear his name. Like Kafka's two other novels, The Castle and Amerika, The Trial was never completed, though it includes a chapter that appears to bring the story to an intentionally abrupt ending; his friend and literary executor Max Brod edited the text for posthumous publication. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/