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The Trial Kindle Edition
- LanguageEnglish
- PublisherOzymandias Press
- Publication date14 April 2018
- File size613 KB
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- ASIN : B07C4253M4
- Publisher : Ozymandias Press
- Accessibility : Learn more
- Publication date : 14 April 2018
- Language : English
- File size : 613 KB
- Screen Reader : Supported
- Enhanced typesetting : Enabled
- X-Ray : Not Enabled
- Word Wise : Enabled
- Print length : 194 pages
- ISBN-13 : 978-1531284374
- Page Flip : Enabled
- Best Sellers Rank: 12,985 in Fiction Classics (Kindle Store)
- 19,413 in Fiction Classics (Books)
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About the author

Franz Kafka was born in 1883 in Prague, where he lived most of his life. During his lifetime, he published only a few short stories, including “The Metamorphosis,” “The Judgment,” and “The Stoker.” He died in 1924, before completing any of his full-length novels. At the end of his life, Kafka asked his lifelong friend and literary executor Max Brod to burn all his unpublished work. Brod overrode those wishes.
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Franz Kafka (Praga, Imperio austrohúngaro, 3 de julio de 1883 - Kierling, Austria, 3 de junio de 1924) fue un escritor de origen judío nacido en Bohemia que escribió en alemán. Su obra está considerada una de las más influyentes de la literatura universal y está llena de temas y arquetipos sobre la alienación, la brutalidad física y psicológica, los conflictos entre padres e hijos, personajes en aventuras terroríficas, laberintos de burocracia, y transformaciones místicas.
Fue autor de tres novelas, El proceso (Der Prozeß), El castillo (Das Schloß) y El desaparecido (Amerika o Der Verschollene), la novela corta La metamorfosis (Die Verwandlung) y un gran número de relatos cortos. Además, dejó una abundante correspondencia y escritos autobiográficos. Su peculiar estilo literario ha sido comúnmente asociado con la filosofía artística del existencialismo --al que influenció-- y el expresionismo. Estudiosos de Kafka discuten sobre cómo interpretar al autor, algunos hablan de la posible influencia de alguna ideología política antiburocrática, de una religiosidad mística o de una reivindicación de su minoría etnocultural, mientras otros se fijan en el contenido psicológico de sus obras. Sus relaciones personales también tuvieron gran impacto en su escritura, particularmente su padre (Carta al padre), su prometida Felice Bauer (Cartas a Felice) y su hermana (Cartas a Ottla).
El término kafkiano se usa en el idioma español para describir situaciones surrealistas como las que se encuentran en sus libros y tiene sus equivalentes en otros idiomas. Solo unas pocas de sus obras fueron publicadas durante su vida. La mayor parte, incluyendo trabajos incompletos, fueron publicados por su amigo Max Brod, quien ignoró los deseos del autor de que los manuscritos fueran destruidos.
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- Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 9 August 2020Oddly compulsive reading but very depressing.
- Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 11 December 2014Perfectly summarises a living nightmare ... It has left me longing to wake up, and to get on with the new day ahead of me. Reading any more of this kind of novel will leave me permanently scarred as well as scared. Does anyone want to help me out of here? Please get back to me urgently if you do or can. Even another day of this kind of terror seems like more than any man can bear. D
- Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 13 March 2016a bit over my head but i stuck with it and finished the book, none the wiser though?
- Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 28 September 2017terrible formatting
very very difficult narrative
- Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 28 July 2015Good stuff but oh how writing has changed in the last century. Read it as I felt I ought to mainly.
- Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 3 December 2014Was recommended this book by a colleague. It certainly raises some questions and is thought provoking. With our governments increasing laws and removing personal freedoms bit by bit, this book should be seen as a warning.
- Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 17 March 2014Not what I expected but very predictable ending guessed very early on
I was expecting a Crime and Punishment like novel - this it definitely was not!
- Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 29 January 2015The Usual dark Kafka novel.
Top reviews from other countries
- GazsoReviewed in Germany on 21 November 2024
5.0 out of 5 stars 👍
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Christian BerlinReviewed in France on 22 January 2018
1.0 out of 5 stars Rubbish
What the piece of crap!!!
Horrible layout. Just like someone's photocopied from another book... No editor's notes. Who's the translator? Date of publication. Don't buy!!!
- AnonReviewed in India on 17 October 2018
5.0 out of 5 stars Nothing like a Kafka
I call Kafka writings ‘relevance of irrelevance’. From a reading of the book it appears that judicial business is distorted world over.
- ValcReviewed in the United States on 27 November 2014
4.0 out of 5 stars Not a very easy book to read
A book that made me, more than once, think "This just does not make any sense..." and still keep me reading to see how it will end. Not a very easy book to read, yet it has it's special place in my bookshelf.
- John K. LefurgeyReviewed in Canada on 25 July 2023
3.0 out of 5 stars Finally finished
I started reading this book 20 or 30 years ago. I finally finished it. I'm not sure what I think about it. By the end I just wanted to finish it. At least now, I've read "The Trial". Yeah me.