The Trial

One morning, Josef K. learns that he has been arrested. However, he is not informed of the reasons for the charges or the essence of the alleged crime. In an attempt to achieve justice and understand the rules of the mysterious judicial system, the protagonist delves deeper into a world of absurd bureaucracy, where logic is powerless, and the search for truth turns into an endless labyrinth.

"The Trial" — the most famous novel by Franz Kafka, which has become one of the key works of world literature of the 20th century. It is a disturbing and mesmerizing story about a man who finds himself face to face with an impersonal power, an incomprehensible law, and his own fears. Kafka creates an atmosphere of escalating nightmare, in which familiar reality gradually loses its outlines, and a sense of guilt arises even where there is no crime.