The Trial
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The Trial is a seminal 20th-century novel by Franz Kafka that portrays a man’s bewildering and nightmarish entanglement in an opaque, authoritarian legal system.
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| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
literary work
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novel ⓘ |
| adaptedAs |
film
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radio drama ⓘ stage play ⓘ |
| author | Franz Kafka NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| centralTheme |
absurdity of legal systems
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alienation ⓘ arbitrary authority ⓘ bureaucratic oppression ⓘ guilt ⓘ powerlessness of the individual ⓘ |
| containsEmbeddedStory | Before the Law NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | Austria-Hungary NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| editorOfFirstEdition | Max Brod NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| firstPublishedInLanguage | German ⓘ |
| genre |
absurdist fiction
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existentialist literature ⓘ modernist novel ⓘ political fiction ⓘ psychological fiction ⓘ |
| hasMottoOrKeyParable | Before the Law NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| incompleteAtAuthorDeath | true ⓘ |
| influenced |
20th-century legal and political thought
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existentialist literature ⓘ |
| legalSystemDepictedAs |
authoritarian
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opaque ⓘ |
| literaryMovement | Kafkaesque literature ⓘ |
| literaryPeriod | 20th-century literature ⓘ |
| mainCharacter | Josef K. NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| narrativePerspective | third-person narration ⓘ |
| narrativeTone |
nightmarish
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surreal ⓘ |
| notableCharacter |
Fraulein Bürstner
NERFINISHED
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Leni NERFINISHED ⓘ The Court Painter Titorelli NERFINISHED ⓘ The Examining Magistrate NERFINISHED ⓘ The Priest NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableFilmAdaptationDirector | Orson Welles NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableFilmAdaptationYear | 1962 ⓘ |
| originalLanguage | German ⓘ |
| originalTitle |
Der Process
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Der Proceß NERFINISHED ⓘ Der Prozess NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| placeOfFirstPublication | Berlin NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| posthumousPublication | true ⓘ |
| protagonist | Josef K. NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| publicationYear | 1925 ⓘ |
| publisherOfFirstBookEdition | Verlag Die Schmiede NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| setting | unnamed Central European city ⓘ |
| yearManuscriptWrittenEnd | 1915 ⓘ |
| yearManuscriptWrittenStart | 1914 ⓘ |
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