Der Prozess: Roman

by Franz Kafka

"Der Prozess: Roman" by Franz Kafka is a novel written between 1914 and 1915. Josef K., a thirty-year-old bank officer, awakens one morning to find himself arrested for an unspecified crime. Though permitted to continue his daily life, he becomes entangled in an opaque legal system that defies comprehension. As K. encounters lawyers, court painters, and fellow accused, he struggles to understand the charges against him and navigate a labyrinthine bureaucracy where logic seems suspended and truth remains perpetually out of reach.