Home → SparkNotes → Literature Study Guides → The Trial. The Trial. Franz Kafka. Table of Contents. Summary. Summary & Analysis. Chapter 1 · Chapter 2 · Chapter 3 · Chapter 4 · Chapter 5 · Chapter 6 · Chapter 7 · Chapter 8 · Chapter 9 · Chapter 10 · Characters. Further Study. Context · Quizzes · Study Questions. read more
The Trial. The Trial (original German title: Der Process, later Der Prozess, Der Proceß and Der Prozeß) is a novel written by Franz Kafka from 1914 to 1915 and published in 1925. read more
The Trial (original German title: Der Process, later Der Prozess, Der Proceß and Der Prozeß) is a novel written by Franz Kafka between 1914 and 1915 and published posthumously in 1925. One of his best-known works, it tells the story of a man arrested and prosecuted by a remote, inaccessible authority, with the nature of his crime revealed neither to him nor to the reader. read more
A bank clerk is arrested one day and searches through the absurd machinations of the legal system to discover the nature of the charges. read more