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The Trial at 100: revisiting Kafka’s prophetic masterpiece

57 min • 10 juli 2025

This year marks the centenary of the publication of Franz Kafka’s novel, The Trial - a seminal work that continues to captivate and unsettle its readers. EI’s Alastair Benn and Paul Lay are joined by Karolina Watroba, author of Metamorphoses: In Search of Franz Kafka, to discuss Josef K’s tragic entanglement with a suffocating bureaucracy.

Image: Portrait of Franz Kafka. Credit: history_docu_photo / Alamy Stock Photo

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