Der Process

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...