The Trial

<p>The Trial by Franz Kafka is the terrifying tale of Josef K. and his surreal arrest. Josef K. a respectable bank officer is suddenly and inexplicably arrested by a pair of guards that have arrived at his boardinghouse on his 30th birthday. He is shortly asked to appear before endless rounds of sessions at court. </p><ul><li>The story becomes interesting as he must defend himself against a charge about which he can get no information.</li><li>He finds himself caught up in the mindless bureaucracy of the law wedded to the madness of totalitarianism and the angsts and alienation of the modern age.</li><li>Rendering the tale of an ordinary person’s struggle against an unreasoning and unreasonable authority The Trial reverberates the chilling truth of today’s times.</li></ul>