TY - BOOK AU - Franz Kafka AU - Franz Kafka TI - The trial SN - 9780679409946 U1 - 833.912 KAF PY - 1992/// CY - New York PB - : Modern Library KW - German fiction KW - Psychological fiction KW - Criminal justice, Administration of--Moral and ethical aspects N1 - Arrest/conversation with Frau Grubach/then Fraulein Burstner -- First interrogation -- In the empty courtroom/student/offices -- Fraulein Burstner's friend -- Whipper -- K.'s uncle/Leni -- Lawyer/manufacturer/painter -- Block, the tradesman/dismissal of the lawyer -- In the cathedral -- End -- Appendix: Unfinished chapters: On the way to Elsa -- Journey to his mother -- Prosecuting counsel -- House -- Conflict with the assistant manager -- Fragment -- Passages deleted by the author: Postscripts by Max Brod: To the first edition -- To the second edition -- To the third edition N2 - Narrates the experiences and reactions of a respectable bank functionary after his abrupt arrest on an undisclosed charge. Kafka's final work was left unfinished at the time of his 1924 death, and the original 1925 and subsequent editions were edited according to the standards of the day. This edition endeavors to restore the text as closely as possible to the original manuscript. In addition to the text, this volume includes a bibliography and a chronology of the author's life ER -