The Trial: Definitive Edition (The Modern Library of the World's Best Books, ML-318)

340, [4] pp. Translated from the German by Willa and Edwin Muir, revised with additional materials translated by E.M. Butler, illustrated by George Salter. "The Trial tells the terrifying tale of Joseph K., a respectable functionary in a bank who is suddenly arrested and must defend his innocence against a charge about which he can get no information. Whether read as an existential take, a parable, or a prophecy, this hauntingly believable story stands out as one of the great novels of our times. Kafka's unsurpassed nightmare vision rings with chilling truth as it foreshadows the excesses of modern bureaucracy wedded to the mad agendas of twentieth-century totalitarian regimes."