“The Trial” is one of Franz Kafka’s most famous novels, written between 1914 and 1915 and published posthumously in 1925. The novel tells the story of the bank clerk Josef K., who is arrested one morning and becomes involved in a mysterious legal process—the reasons for which remain unknown to him. The work explores themes of bureaucratic absurdity, human alienation in the modern world, and the individual's powerlessness in the face of an incomprehensible system.