The Trial

by Franz Kafka · 1925

Josef K. is arrested one morning without being told his crime, and the proceedings never really begin — or end.

Books that mention The Trial (7)

• Kafka on the Shore by Haruki Murakami: “"I assume you've read some of Kafka's stories?" I nod. "The Castle, and The Trial, 'The Metamorphosis,' plus that weird story about an execution device."”
• 2666 by Roberto Bolaño: “He chose The Metamorphosis over The Trial, he chose Bartleby over Moby-Dick.”
• Babel Tower by A. S. Byatt: “Same book-burning list of Frederica's teaching texts.”
• Let Me Tell You What I Mean by Joan Didion: “Franz Kafka's The Trial and The Castle are mentioned.”
• The Rebel by Albert Camus: “How can we imagine anything to follow Moby Dick, The Trial, Zarathustra, The Possessed?”
• Deception by Philip Roth: “I remember those A students all reading Kafka's Letter to His Father and explaining exactly how "Metamorphosis" and The Trial derived from his relationship to his father.”
• The Ghost Writer by Philip Roth: “Do you remember the first sentence of The Trial?”