The Trial
A bank clerk is arrested one morning for a crime no one will name, and pursues his case through an endless bureaucracy.
- Type
- Book
- Released
- 1925
- Author
- Franz Kafka
- Original title
- Der Process
Genres
Literary fiction · Existentialist fiction · Absurdist & surreal comedy · Courtroom & legal
What it feels like
Crime & justice · Surveillance & authoritarianism · Isolation & solitude · Unsettling / disturbing · Darkly funny
Connected stories
- Shares a creator with The Metamorphosis