David Wyllie

The story of the mysterious indictment, trial, and reckoning forced upon Joseph K. in Franz Kafka s The Trial is one of the twentieth century s master parables, reflecting the central spiritual crises of modern life. Kafka s method one that has influenced, in some way, almost every writer of substance who followed him was to render the absurd and the terrifying convincing by a scrupulous, hyperreal matter-of-factness of tone and treatment. He thereby...