7/4/2023 0 Comments The trial franz kafka pages![]() And why? Because this literary coupis so transfixing that why is incidental and, by the end, doesn’t really matter. And though he is found guilty, and executed, he, and we, never find out. So, Josef K., the reader, and the narrator, do not know why he was arrested. ![]() ![]() Item #747 “…without having done anything wrong, he was arrested…” Franz Kafkas absurdist novel The Trial is set in an unnamed European town in the early twentieth century. The last auction sale was $7,500 for one in a repaired jacket (Sotheby’s, Sep. First and last few pages, the page edges and extreme marginsfoxed (the rest is ok), near fine in a dustjacket that is 1/8” short along the top (maybe miscut or maybe trimmed), faded to tan on the spine and with 2 darker tan spots, else very good, nice looking, never repaired, real as a heart attack, and priced to more than compensate for its failings. 1st edition in English, preceding Knopf’s American edition. The Trial (Der Process in Kafka’s original German-language text) was written in 1914-15 but, like much of Kafka’s work, remained unpublished until after his death. ![]()
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