The Trial
Kafka, Franz / Muir, Edwin / Muir, Willa / Sands, Philippe
Franz Kafka (1883¿1924) was born into a Jewish family in Prague. In 1906 he received a doctorate in jurisprudence, and for many years he worked a tedious job as a civil service lawyer investigating claims at the State Worker's Accident Insurance Institute. He never married, and published only a few slim volumes of stories during his lifetime. Meditation, a collection of sketches, appeared in 1912, The Stoker: A Fragment in 1913, Metamorphosis ...