![]() ![]() ![]() He spent his days working as a lawyer for an insurance company, but by night he wrote stories and novels considered some of the high points of twentieth century literature. Kafka was a German-speaking Jew who lived in the Czech city of Prague, during the turbulent years which followed the First World War. ![]() Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Franz Kafka's novel of power and alienation 'The Trial', in which readers follow the protagonist Joseph K into a bizarre, nightmarish world in which he stands accused of an unknown crime courts of interrogation convene in obscure tenement buildings and there seems to be no escape from a crushing, oppressive bureaucracy. ![]()
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