The Trial

The Trial (German Der Prozess) is a surreal novel by Franz Kafka about a character named Joseph K., who awakens one morning and, for reasons that one never discovers, is arrested and subjected to the rigours of the judicial process for an unspecified crime.

Comparisons with other works

The novel with the most obvious resemblance to The Trial is George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four (1949). Both tales describe the struggle of an ordinary man against a faceless bureaucracy. Each tale also concludse with the death of the main protagonist, and, in one way or another, the protagonist accepting (or simply feeling resigned to) his fate.

Related Topics:
George Orwell - Nineteen Eighty-Four - 1949 - Bureaucracy

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