LoginThe Trial: A New Translation Based on the Restored Text
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The story of The Trial's publication is almost as fascinating as the novel itself. Kafka intended his parable of alienation in a mysterious bureaucracy to be burned, along with the rest of his diaries and manuscripts, after his death in 1924. Yet his friend Max Brod pressed forward to prepare The Trial and the rest of his papers for publication. When the Nazis came to power, publication of Jewish writers such as Kafka was forbidden; Kafka's writings, many of which have distinctively Jewish themes, did not find a broad audience until after World War II. (Hannah Arendt once observed that although "during his
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Manufacturer: Schocken
Release date: 25 May 1999
ISBN-10 : 0805209999 | ISBN-13: 9780805209990
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Release date: 25 May 1999
ISBN-10 : 0805209999 | ISBN-13: 9780805209990
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