KAFKA, Franz; Alan E. Cober [Illustrator].
The Trial.
New York: The Limited Editions Club , 1975.
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“Logic may indeed be unshakeable, but it cannot withstand a man who is determined to live”: The Limited Editions Club edition of Franz Kafka's The Trial; signed by illustrator Alan E. Cober and Finely Bound by Sangorski & Sutcliffe
The Limited Editions Club signed limited edition of Kafka's first published novel. Octavo, bound in full modern morocco by Sangorski & Sutcliffe/Zaehnsdorf with gilt titles to the spine, all edges gilt, gilt inner dentelles, marbled endpapers, with black and white illustrations. Boldly signed by illustrator Alan E. Cober on the colophon page at the rear. One of 2,000 numbered copies, this is number 284. In fine condition. Translated from the German by Willa and Edwin Muir. Introduction by Erich Heller. Illustrated by Alan E. Cober.
Franz Kafka’s The Trial is a seminal work of modernist literature that encapsulates the author’s preoccupation with alienation, bureaucracy, and the absurdity of institutional power. Written in 1914–1915 but published posthumously in 1925 by Max Brod, the novel follows Josef K., an ordinary man arrested without explanation and drawn into a labyrinthine legal system that offers neither clarity nor justice. Kafka, a German-speaking Jew from Prague who worked in insurance, drew on his experiences with bureaucracy and the anxieties of early 20th-century life to craft a narrative marked by existential dread and surreal logic. The Trial exemplifies the "Kafkaesque" condition—where individuals are subject to arbitrary systems beyond their comprehension—and remains a powerful critique of dehumanizing authority and the fragility of individual autonomy in the modern world.
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