The Trial
The Trial is a novel written by Franz Kafka between 1914 and 1915 and published posthumously in 1925. One of his best-known works,
it tells the story of a man arrested and prosecuted by a remote, inaccessible authority, with the nature of his crime revealed neither to him nor to the reader. Heavily influenced by Dostoyevsky's Crime and Punishment and The Brothers Karamazov, Kafka even went so far as to call Dostoyevsky a blood relative. Like Kafka's other novels, The Trial was never completed, although it does include a chapter that brings the story to an end.
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Franz Kafka war bofn in Prague in 1883, the son of a rich Jewish Czech merchant After studying literature and medicine for a short time, he turned to law, which he believed was the perfection that would give him the greatest amount of free time for his private life and for bis writing.
He took bis doctorate m law at Prague University, obtained a ]ob with an insurance company, and later became a clerk in the semi-governmental Workers’ Insurance Office In later years the necessity of earning his having by routine office work became an intolerable burden, and be broke away altogether, settling down m a Berhn suburb to devote himself to writing. In 1914 he became engaged, but broke it off, feeling unable to face marriage He made one more attempt to marry, but It was discovered that he was suffering from tuberculosis and he went to a sanatorium.
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