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/
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Composed, From (Year) Composed, From (Year) Composed, To (Year)Written 1914-1915; published posthumously 26 April 1925. Classification
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Who put The Trial into its final order if Kafka never finished it?
Max Brod assembled the novel from 161 loose pages after Kafka died in 1924.
Kafka's friend and literary executor Max Brod did. Kafka began the novel in August 1914 by writing the opening and concluding sections, then worked on the scenes between them in a haphazard way across several notebooks. Brod took the manuscript for safekeeping, a bundle of 161 loose pages that Kafka had gathered into chapters. He was not told the order of the chapters or which parts were finished. After Kafka's death in 1924, Brod edited the work and assembled it into a novel as best he could. Later scholars have done further editorial work, but Kafka's final vision for the book remains unknown.
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The Trial (German: Der Prozess) is a German-language novel written by Czech writer Franz Kafka in 1914 and 1915 and published posthumously on 26 April 1925.
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is a German-language novel written by Czech writer Franz Kafka in 1914 and 1915 and published posthumously on 26 April 1925.
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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.
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The Trial (German: Der Prozess) is a German-language novel written by Czech writer Franz Kafka.
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