The Trial

A Graphic Novel

This book might be part of the Eye Classics series.

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.

127 pages

English language

Published July 23, 2008 by Self Made Hero.

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ISBN:
978-0-9552856-9-1
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OCLC Number:
819543028

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Reviews

A dark, futilistic book about a bureaucratic, authoritarian nightmare.

I can see why people look at Kafka's work and can see a germ of fascism. The most chilling part of his writing is the relentless unstoppable nature of the forces involved. It is the perfect form of the unacountable, authoritarian state. A world so tied up in red tape it doesn't matter who's in charge, and even if it did there would be no way to change anything anyway.

Enjoyable in it's own, grimly farsical way.