“It's only because of their stupidity that they're able to be so sure of themselves.”

A novel of such ambiguity will inevitably lend itself to a diversity of interpretation, but in The Trial you can at least be sure to find every element of storytelling now defined as Kafkaesque.

Josef K., our protagonist, is unexpectedly arrested on the morning of his 30th birthday. The agents who arrest him are unidentified, the agency they work for is unspecified, and the crime for which he has been accused is unknown. When he is released, shortly after, he is told to await further instruction. So begins the manic and emotionless trial of a man beholden to the whims of an unknown force, and his painstaking attempts to find a way out of this existential maze.

The Trial brings into focus the absurdity of life, our universal fear of judgement, and one ultimate question: how much of this endless maze will you explore before you accept the fate life has bestowed upon you?

“他们能够这么自信只是因为愚蠢。”

一千个读者眼中就会有一千个哈姆雷特。但在《审判》中，你至少可以肯定地发现，故事叙述的每个元素现在都被定义为卡夫卡式。

小说主人公约瑟夫·K.在30岁生日当天早晨意外被捕。逮捕他的人身份不明，不知是为哪个机构工作，也没有人告诉他犯了什么罪。当被释放后不久，他被告知还要等待进一步的指示。于是，一个受制于未知力量的狂躁冷漠的审判开始了，他费尽心思试图找到走出这个生存迷宫的方法。

《审判》让人们关注到生活的荒谬性，我们对审判的普遍恐惧，以及一个**问题：在你接受生活赋予你的命运之前，你能在这个无尽的迷宫中探索多少？