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The Trial
- Author
- Franz Kafka
- Narrator
- Kobna Holdbrook-Smith
- Publisher
- Penguin Books Ltd
- Publish Date
- 26 September 2019
- Run Time
- 8 hours 7 minutes
- Format
- Audiobook
What to expect
Brought to you by Penguin.
This Penguin Classic is performed by Kobna Holdbrook-Smith, winner of the 2019 Laurence Olivier Award for Best Actor in a Musical.
A terrifying psychological trip into the life of one Joseph K., an ordinary man who wakes up one day to find himself accused of a crime he did not commit, a crime whose nature is never revealed to him. Once arrested, he is released, but must report to court on a regular basis - an event that proves maddening, as nothing is ever resolved. As he grows more uncertain of his fate, his personal life - including work at a bank and his relations with his landlady and a young woman who lives next door - becomes increasingly unpredictable. As K. tries to gain control, he succeeds only in accelerating his own excruciating downward spiral.
Critics Review
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The Dante of the Twentieth Century
W. H. Auden
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This compelling, prophetic novel anticipates the insanity of modern bureaucracy and the coming of totalitarianism
The Daily Telegraph
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It is the fate and perhaps the greatness of that work that it offers everything and confirms nothing
Albert Camus
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It was Kafka who made me understand that one can write differently
Gabriel García Márquez
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Details
- Author
- Franz Kafka
- Narrator
- Kobna Holdbrook-Smith
- Duration
- 8 hours 7 minutes
- Release Date
- 26 September 2019
- ISBN
- 9780241425589
- Format
- Audiobook
- Publisher
- Penguin Books Ltd
- Genre
- Classic fiction: literary and general, Metaphysical / philosophical fiction, Dystopian and utopian fiction, Narrative theme: interior life / psychological fiction, Narrative theme: politics / economics, Fiction in translation
Synopsis
Brought to you by Penguin. This Penguin Classic is performed by Kobna Holdbrook-Smith, winner of the 2019 Laurence Olivier Award for Best Actor in a Musical. A terrifying psychological trip into the life of one Joseph K., an ordinary man who wakes up one day to find himself accused of a crime he did not commit, a crime whose nature is never revealed to him. Once arrested, he is released, but must report to court on a regular basis - an event that proves maddening, as nothing is ever resolved. As he grows more uncertain of his fate, his personal life - including work at a bank and his relations with his landlady and a young woman who lives next door - becomes increasingly unpredictable. As K. tries to gain control, he succeeds only in accelerating his own excruciating downward spiral.
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