• Loveleen Parmar

Kafka wrote the novel The Trial in 1914-15 but it was published after his death on 26 April 1925. The original manuscript has been preserved in the Museum of Modern Literature in Germany. Its first translation in English was published in 1937 by Willa and Edwin Muir. It is on record that Kafka first composed the opening and concluding segments of the novel, the rest of the novel being written in an unplanned manner in scattered manuscripts preserved by his friend. The novel was arranged by Kafka’s friend Max Brod, as per the latter’s own understanding of the events in the story, after the death of Kafka. The novel begins on the morning of the thirtieth birthday of the protagonist who works as a cashier in a bank. The unforeseen circumstances unfold as the protagonist Josef K is arrested for a crime unknown and unrevealed to him by agents who don’t divulge details regarding the reasons of arrest, nor do they inform him about the agency responsible for the arrest orders.

Anxiety and Irrationality in Franz Kafka’s The Trial and Albert Camus’ The Stranger

"Anxiety and Irrationality in Franz Kafka’s The Trial and Albert Camus’ The Stranger", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.6, Issue 4, page no.155-158, April-2019, Available :http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR1904U73.pdf

"Anxiety and Irrationality in Franz Kafka’s The Trial and Albert Camus’ The Stranger", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org | UGC and issn Approved), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.6, Issue 4, page no. pp155-158, April-2019, Available at : http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR1904U73.pdf