{"product_id":"2026200012803-secondhand-kafkas-trial-the-case-against-josef-k","title":"Kafka's Trial: The Case Against Josef K.","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition remarks:\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBook: Good\u003cbr\u003eJacket: Worn\/faded, no tears\u003cbr\u003ePages: Good\u003cbr\u003eMarkings: Ex-library with usual markings,Fair - Bumping on spine and corners. Rubbed edges.\u003cbr\u003eCondition remarks: Glue marks on front end and end pages - pages otherwise fine. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhat does it mean to be guilty of a crime you never knew you committed? Eric Marson's Kafka's Trial: The Case against Josef K. presents a rigorous and penetrating critical study of Franz Kafka's most celebrated and enigmatic novel, The Trial, dissecting the legal, moral, and existential dimensions of Josef K.'s surreal prosecution with scholarly precision. Marson methodically argues that the novel is far more than an exercise in literary absurdism — it is a carefully constructed indictment of modern bureaucratic systems, individual culpability, and the machinery of institutional power that grinds the individual into submission.\n\nPublished by the University of Queensland Press, this work situates Kafka's masterpiece within broader intellectual traditions spanning law, philosophy, and 20th-century European thought, drawing on close textual analysis to illuminate the novel's labyrinthine logic. Marson's style is authoritative yet accessible, guiding readers through the competing interpretations that have surrounded The Trial since its posthumous publication, while staking out a compelling thesis of his own. For anyone who has ever felt both implicated and bewildered by a world that offers no clear verdict, this critical study raises a question that refuses to be dismissed: is Josef K. truly innocent — or is that the wrong question entirely?\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Secondhand Stock","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49131001741531,"sku":"2026200012803-SECONDHAND","price":60.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0523\/7646\/9701\/files\/070990d5-3753-40c0-ab3f-b749da3a9a1b.png?v=1786594281","url":"https:\/\/bookgrocer.com\/products\/2026200012803-secondhand-kafkas-trial-the-case-against-josef-k","provider":"Book Grocer","version":"1.0","type":"link"}