The Trial

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The Trial is a seminal 20th-century novel by Franz Kafka that portrays a man’s bewildering and nightmarish entanglement in an opaque, authoritarian legal system.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf literary work ⓘ
novel ⓘ
adaptedAs film ⓘ
radio drama ⓘ
stage play ⓘ
author Franz Kafka ⓘ
centralTheme absurdity of legal systems ⓘ
alienation ⓘ
arbitrary authority ⓘ
bureaucratic oppression ⓘ
guilt ⓘ
powerlessness of the individual ⓘ
containsEmbeddedStory Before the Law ⓘ
linked to: The Judgment
countryOfOrigin Austria-Hungary ⓘ
editorOfFirstEdition Max Brod ⓘ
firstPublishedInLanguage German ⓘ
genre absurdist fiction ⓘ
existentialist literature ⓘ
modernist novel ⓘ
political fiction ⓘ
psychological fiction ⓘ
hasMottoOrKeyParable Before the Law ⓘ
linked to: The Judgment
incompleteAtAuthorDeath true ⓘ
influenced 20th-century legal and political thought ⓘ
existentialist literature ⓘ
legalSystemDepictedAs authoritarian ⓘ
opaque ⓘ
literaryMovement Kafkaesque literature ⓘ
literaryPeriod 20th-century literature ⓘ
mainCharacter Josef K. ⓘ
narrativePerspective third-person narration ⓘ
narrativeTone nightmarish ⓘ
surreal ⓘ
notableCharacter Fraulein Bürstner ⓘ
Leni ⓘ
The Court Painter Titorelli ⓘ
The Examining Magistrate ⓘ
The Priest ⓘ
notableFilmAdaptationDirector Orson Welles ⓘ
notableFilmAdaptationYear 1962 ⓘ
originalLanguage German ⓘ
originalTitle Der Process ⓘ
Der Proceß ⓘ
linked to: The Trial

Der Prozess ⓘ
placeOfFirstPublication Berlin ⓘ
posthumousPublication true ⓘ
protagonist Josef K. ⓘ
publicationYear 1925 ⓘ
publisherOfFirstBookEdition Verlag Die Schmiede ⓘ
linked to: Kurt Wolff Verlag
setting unnamed Central European city ⓘ
yearManuscriptWrittenEnd 1915 ⓘ
yearManuscriptWrittenStart 1914 ⓘ

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The Trial → originalTitle → Der Proceß ⓘ
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The Castle → relatedWork → The Trial ⓘ
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