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Byzantine and claustrophobic novel of a man arrested by the secret police and charged with an unspecified crime. Unable to defend himself and disorientated by the legal process at work around him the man soon becomes apathetic and acquiescent, accepting his eventual sentence as inevitable.
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- unpretentiousprestige
- gravecomic
- warmbleak
- contemplativerelentless
- resolvedopen-ended
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- Author
- Franz Kafka
- First published
- 1825
- Pages
- 269
- Publisher
- Parlando Edition Christian Brückner, Roads Publishing, Arcturus
- Editions
- 783
- Language
- yid, English, German, nno
- ISBN
- 9781480527805
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“SOMEONE must have been telling lies about Joseph K., for without having done anything wrong he was arrested one fine morning.”
Franz Kafka (gelegentlich tschechisch František Kafka, 3. Juli 1883, Prag, Österreich-Ungarn-3. Juni 1924, Kierling, Österreich) war ein österreichisch-tschechoslowakischer Schriftsteller. Er gilt als einer der bedeutendsten Vertreter der Prager deutschen Literatur und der deutschsprachigen Literatur des 20. Jahrhunderts. Seine Werke – darunter die drei Romanfragmente *Der Process, Das Schloss* und *Der Verschollene* sowie zahlreiche Erzählungen – gehören zum Kanon der Weltliteratur. Kafkas Werke wurden zum größeren Teil erst nach seinem Tod und gegen seine letztwillige Verfügung von Max Brod veröffentlicht, einem engen Freund und Vertrauten, den Kafka zu seinem Nachlassverwalter bestimmt ha
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