novel about the last year of the life of Joseph K., bogged down in the millstones of a stupid and ruthless judicial machine, is an impartial portrait of the bureaucracy, familiar to readers of the 21st century no worse than to Franz Kafka's contemporaries, and a metaphor for a monotonous human life without joy, love and meaning. Bank manager K. is tried, but it is not clear why. The hero is unable to achieve justice, does not distinguish between manipulation and warmth, and conscientiousness - from the arbitrariness of officials, and until his last breath takes his absurd state for granted. The new translation of The Trial by Leonid Bershidsky is supplemented with fragments of Franz Kafka's drafts that were not previously published as part of the novel. He rebuilds the chronology of K.'s misfortunes and masterfully conveys the intonation of the original text: "unsmooth, sometimes too formal, a little shy German of a brilliant Prague Jew."
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