TY - BOOK AU - Kafka, Franz TI - The Trial SN - 9780241197790 U1 - 833.912 PY - 1994/// CY - United Kingdom PB - Penguin Books KW - German fiction KW - Totalitarianism KW - Trials N1 - https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/57053/the-trial-by-kafka-franz/9780241372562 N2 - A terrifying psychological trip into the life of one Joseph K., an ordinary man who wakes up one day to find himself accused of a crime he did not commit, a crime whose nature is never revealed to him. Once arrested, he is released, but must report to court on a regular basis--an event that proves maddening, as nothing is ever resolved. As he grows more uncertain of his fate, his personal life--including work at a bank and his relations with his landlady and a young woman who lives next door--becomes increasingly unpredictable. As K. tries to gain control, he succeeds only in accelerating his own excruciating downward spiral ER -