"What is the name of the main character, a senior bank clerk, in Franz Kafka's unfinished novel ""The Trial""?"
The Trial The Trial The Trial (original German title: , later , and ) is a novel written by Franz Kafka between 1914 and 1915 and published posthumously in 1925. One of his most well-known works, it tells the story of Josef K., a man arrested and prosecuted by a remote, inaccessible authority, with the nature of his crime revealed neither to him nor to the reader. Heavily influenced by Dostoyevsky's "Crime and Punishment" and "The Brothers Karamazov", Kafka even went so far as to call Dostoyevsky a blood relative. Like Kafka's other novels, "The Trial" was never completed, although it does
The Complete Stories of Franz Kafka The Complete Stories of Franz Kafka The Complete Stories of Franz Kafka is a compilation of all of Kafka's short stories. With the exception of three novels ("The Trial", "The Castle" and "Amerika"), this collection includes all of his narrative work. The book was originally edited by Nahum N. Glatzer and published by Schocken Books in 1971. It was reprinted in 1995 with an introduction by John Updike. The collection includes all the works published during Kafka's lifetime, with the exception of "The Stoker" which is usually incorporated as the first chapter of his unfinished novel "Amerika". Some of the