Someone must have been telling lies about Josef K., he knew he had done nothing wrong but, one morning, he was arrested.
This inexpensive edition of one of the 20th century\'s most important novels features an acclaimed translation by David Wyllie..
Josef K.\'s ordeals raise provocative, ever-relevant issues related to the role of government and the nature of justice.
Written in 1914 and published posthumously in 1925, Kafka\'s engrossing parable about the human condition plunges an isolated individual into an impersonal, illogical system.
Its darkly humorous narrative recounts a bank clerk\'s entrapment -- based on an undisclosed charge -- in a maze of nonsensical rules and bureaucratic roadblocks.
From its gripping first sentence onward, this novel exemplifies the term Kafkaesque.
Someone must have been telling lies about Josef K., he knew he had done nothing wrong but, one morning, he was arrested
