Franz Kafka is one of the founders of modern literature. His claim to greatness includes his service in completely collapsing the aesthetic distance that had traditionally separated the writer from the reader. In what is probably his most famous work of...

Franz Kafka is one of the founders of modern literature. His claim to greatness includes his service in completely collapsing the aesthetic distance that had traditionally separated the writer from the reader. In what is probably his most famous work of...

One of the most influential writers of the twentieth century, Franz Kafka penned novels and short stories that portray the bewildered alienation of modern society. His characters frequently find themselves in threatening situations for which there is no...

The Trial by Franz Kafka Franz Kafka (1883-1924) was born into a German-speaking Jewish family in Prague, capital of the province of Bohemia, which was located in the western part of the future Czechoslovakia. Bohemia was then part of the...

The Trial (German: Der Process) is a novel by Franz Kafka about a character named Josef K., who awakens one morning and, for reasons never revealed, is arrested and subjected to the judicial process for an unspecified crime. According to Kafka's friend...

The special court trying former Liberian President Charles Taylor on war crimes charges cleared the way Tuesday for his trial to resume next month, more than six months after its chaotic adjournment.In a hearing lasting less than 10 minutes, the prosecution and defense agreed they...

The trial of two nursing home owners charged with negligent homicide in the deaths of 35 patients after Hurricane Katrina will probably be held outside of St. Bernard Parish.A state judge Thursday granted a defense motion to move the trial of Mabel and Salvador Mangano,...

The trial—involving retail chain Mitsukoshi, cosmetics company Shiseido and RFID vendor Fujitsu—also offers consumers a "virtual real-time makeup" session featuring a camera-equipped kiosk, display and RFID tag reader "that will enable customers to view on the display how particular products would look on their face...

Lawyers for a man accused of killing four people in a spree that started inside a courthouse lost another request that would have delayed the trial, set for next month.Superior Court Judge Hilton Fuller said in his order Friday that "an interim appeal would not...

In the following essay, Low focuses on Kafka's depiction of justice and morality in The Trial, suggesting that his notion of it is a complex, nuanced one not easily summarized by modern critics.

An analysis of the role guilt plays in developing the themes of Franz Kafka's The Trial. Explores the idea of guilt, where it comes from and how its themes permeate Kafka's entire novel.