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The Czech writer Franz Kafka, whose works have just been reissued in a new translation, painted a... more The Czech writer Franz Kafka, whose works have just been reissued in a new translation, painted a nightmare world of legal injustice that has resonances today, almost a century on. Sinead Kennedy looks at the politics of this disturbing but profoundly relevant novelist The Trial, perhaps Franz Kafka's finest literary accomplishment, draws us into the strange and yet oddly familiar world of its protagonist, Josef K. We are with him when he is arrested, when he goes to his first interrogation, when he meets his lawyer, when he is executed. Kafka conveys Josek K's terrifying sense of being trapped, a pawn in the control of the powerful and mysterious Court.
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