The Trial - Definitive Edition

New York: Quality Paperback Book Club, 1991. Trade Paperback. Very Good. 6" x 9. Elias, Monica - Cover. 281 Pges. This work is a transation of the German Der Prozess edited by Max Brod. This edition was specially created in 1991 by Quality Paperback Book Club by arrangement Pantheon books. Tight book with no marks or stamps and a flawless interior. This is one of the great novels of the 20th century and is the terrifying story of Joseph K., a respectable functionary in a bank who is suddenly arrested and must spend the rest of his life fighting a charge against him about which he can get no information. This definitive edition includes Kafka's drawings and excerpts from his diaries during the peirod in which he wrote The Trial. About the book Albert Camus says 'here we are taken to the limits of human thought. Indeed, everything inn this work is, in the true sense, essential. It states the problem of the absurd in its entirety'. Contetns in Ten Chapters: The Arrest Conversation with Fru Grubach, First Interrogation, In the Empty Courtroom The Student The Offices, Fraulein Burstner's Friend, The Whipper, K.'s Uncle Leni, Lawyer Manfacturer Painter, Block the Tradesman Dismissal of the Lawyer, In the Cathedral, and The End. Four Appendices: The Unfinished Chapters, The Passages Deleted by the Author, Postscripts by Max Brod, and Excerpts from Kafka's Diaries.