The Trial

One winter morning--snow was falling in the dull light outside--K. was sitting in his office, already extremely tired despite the early hour. He had told the servitor he was eng...

K. had at last made the decision to withdraw his defence from the lawyer. It was impossible to remove his doubts as to whether this was the right decision, but this was outweigh...

Someone must have been telling lies about Josef K., he knew he had done nothing wrong but, one morning, he was arrested. Every day at eight in the morning he was brought his bre...

Every day over the following week, K. expected another summons to arrive, he could not believe that his rejection of any more hearings had been taken literally, and when the exp...

A very important Italian business contact of the bank had come to visit the city for the first time and K. was given the task of showing him some of its cultural sights. At any...

One afternoon--K. was very busy at the time, getting the post ready--K.'s Uncle Karl, a small country land owner, came into the room, pushing his way between two of the staff wh...

K. was informed by telephone that there would be a small hearing concerning his case the following Sunday. He was made aware that these cross examinations would follow one anoth...

For some time after this, K. found it impossible to exchange even just a few words with Miss Bürstner. He tried to reach her in many and various ways but she always found a way...

One evening, a few days later, K. was walking along one of the corridors that separated his office from the main stairway--he was nearly the last one to leave for home that even...

The evening before K.'s thirty-first birthday--it was about nine o'clock in the evening, the time when the streets were quiet--two men came to where he lived. In frock coats, pa...