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Product Identifiers

PublisherKnopf Doubleday Publishing Group

ISBN-100805208488

ISBN-139780805208481

eBay Product ID (ePID)4433887

Product Key Features

Original LanguageGerman

Book TitleTrial

Number of Pages288 Pages

LanguageEnglish

TopicPsychological, Literary

Publication Year1968

FeaturesRevised

IllustratorYes

GenreNon-Classifiable, Fiction

AuthorWilla Muir

Book SeriesSchocken Classics Ser.

FormatTrade Paperback

Dimensions

Item Weight9.5 Oz

Item Length7.9 in

Item Width5.1 in

Additional Product Features

Intended AudienceTrade

LCCN87-032345

Dewey Edition20

ReviewsPraise forThe Trial: "Breon Mitchell's translation of the restored text is an accomplishment of the highest order -- one that will honor Kafka, perhaps the most singular and compelling writer of our time, far into the twenty-first century." -- Walter Abish, author ofHow German Is It Praise forThe Castle: translated by Mark Harman from the restored text "The new Schocken edition ofThe Castlerepresents a major and long-awaited event in English- language publishing. It is a wonderful piece of news for all Kafka readers who, for more than half a century, have had to rely on flawed, superannuated editions. Mark Harman is to be commended for his success in capturing the fresh, fluid, almost breathless style of Kafka's original manuscript." -- Mark M. Anderson, Columbia University "Semantically accurate to an admirable degree, faithful to Kafka's nuances, responsive to the tempo of his sentences and to the larger music of his paragraph construction. For the general reader or for the student, it will be the translation of preference for some time to come." -- J. M. Coetzee,The New York Review of Books "There is a great deal to applaud in Harman's translation. It gives us a much better sense of Kafka's uncompromising and disturbing originality as a prose master than we have heretofore had in English." -- Robert Alter,The New Republic From the Hardcover edition.

TitleLeadingThe

Performed byKafka, Franz

Dewey Decimal833/.912

Edition DescriptionRevised edition

SynopsisThe story of the mysterious indictment, trial, and reckoning forced upon Joseph K. in Franz Kafka' s "The Trial" is one of the twentieth century' s master parables, reflecting the central spiritual crises of modern life. Kafka' s method- one that has influenced, in some way, almost every writer of substance who followed him- was to render the absurd and the terrifying convincing by a scrupulous, hyperreal matter-of-factness of tone and treatment. He thereby imparted to his work a level of seriousness normally associated with civilization' s most cherished poems and religious texts. Translated by Willa and Edwin Muir

LC Classification NumberPT2621.A26P713 1988