The Trial

The Trial

by Franz Kafka

The Trial is an exemplary dystopian novel written by Kafka in 1914, published posthumously in 1925. A man is arrested and prosecuted by a remote, inaccessible authority, without being told the nature of his crime. Kafka was inspired by Fyodor Dostoevsky's similar themed novels about injustice, Crime and Punishment, and The Brothers Karamazov.

Table of Contents

Arrest - Conversation with Mrs. Grubach - Then Miss Brstner
First Cross-examination
In the empty Courtroom - The Student - The Offices
Miss Brstner's Friend
The whip-man
K.'s uncle - Leni
Lawyer - Manufacturer - Painter
Block, the businessman - Dismissing the lawyer
In the Cathedral
End