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Novel · 1925

The Trial

Franz Kafka

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Novel · 1925 · German · Modern

The Trial

Franz Kafka

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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