The Trial

208 pages

English language

Published April 27, 2000 by Penguin Books Ltd.

ISBN:
9780141182902
OCLC Number:
59566691

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4 stars (2 reviews)

Penguin Modern Classics

74 editions

Disappointing

2 stars

That was disappointing. Too dense, too random and K is such an annoyingly obnoxious character that, by the second chapter, I was wishing they'd just lock him up and throw away the key.

The story can be read as a warning against the banal bureaucracy ot totalitarianism, but these themes have been much better handled by subsequent writers.