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Journal Entry 1 by  starflash from Crawley, West Sussex United Kingdom on Sunday, October 14, 2007
 Been on the shelf for DECADES. Bought for my 18th birthday. I have another copy, so this one is realeased for some tlc.
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Journal Entry 3 by NICNIC2 from St Andrews, Scotland United Kingdom on Saturday, December 01, 2007
Got this from the bookbox today to add to my mountainous TBR pile :)
ETA: I've decided to donate this to the virtual 1001-library so it can continue travelling til I get round to reading it :)
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Journal Entry 5 by NICNIC2 at St Andrews, Scotland United Kingdom on Wednesday, April 06, 2011
Travelling to soffitta1 in Spain via England :)
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Journal Entry 6 by soffitta1 at Ávila, Ávila Spain on Saturday, April 30, 2011
Sorry for the delay, this has arrived in Spain, delivered by gitana100. I look forward to reading it.
Josef K. is arrested at home for an unnamed crime, and the book follows his trying to pin down the charges so he can have them dismissed.
K. is continually messed around by those in charge, he is summoned to the court, but not given the hour to call. After being advised to see the court painter, Titorelli, a man privy to the inner workings of the court, he finds out that no person who has been charged has ever got off, with some cases lasting for years. It seems that everyone is in on it, or are certainly, as his colleagues, taking advantage of his present low position.
In keeping with much of Kafka's work, K. is at a complete loss, trying to solve the situation through logic, but it is clear that there is another kind of logic at work here, one which is perverse. The legal affairs take place in less than salubrious settings, from Titorelli's dirty studio surrounded by precocious children to the sick bed of K.'s lawyer. As K. frustrations grow, the narrative moves on with less and less hope of a happy outcome.
I had had this on my shelf for a few months, I knew what to expect as I had studied Kafka at school and uni. A good, thought-provoking read. I did have a severe case of deja vu with the priest's description of the door keeper, but as none of the rest of the book seemed familiar, I think I had studied that section as part of background reading. Strange, but fitting I suppose!
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Journal Entry 7 by 1001-library at Helsinki, Uusimaa Finland on Sunday, July 24, 2011
This book is now back on the 1001 library bookshelf and can be borrowed by PMing soffitta1:)
If you want to take this book from the library but don't know how to proceed, please refer to the library bookshelf.
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The Trial (Modern Classics)
