
ERSTES KAPITEL - VERHAFTUNG · GESPRÄCH MIT FRAU GRUBACH · DANN FRÄULEIN BÜRSTNER
ZWEITES KAPITEL - ERSTE UNTERSUCHUNG
DRITTES KAPITEL - IM LEEREN SITZUNGSSAAL · DER STUDENT · DIE KANZLEIEN
VIERTES KAPITEL - DIE FREUNDIN DES FRÄULEIN BÜRSTNER
FÜNFTES KAPITEL - DER PRÜGLER
SECHSTES KAPITEL - DER ONKEL · LENI
SIEBENTES KAPITEL - ADVOKAT · FABRIKANT · MALER
ACHTES KAPITEL - KAUFMANN BLOCK · KÜNDIGUNG DES ADVOKATEN
NEUNTES KAPITEL - IM DOM
ZEHNTES KAPITEL - ENDE
A quiet morning turns strange when a seemingly ordinary clerk is woken by a knock that brings an unfamiliar, sharply dressed stranger into his modest boarding house. Without a charge or any clear accusation, he is told that a mysterious legal process has already begun, and that he is, in fact, being held. The bewildered protagonist watches the routine of his daily life dissolve into a series of absurd, unsettling exchanges with the stranger and the other residents, who speak in vague, bureaucratic tones that hint at an impenetrable system.
As he tries to make sense of the sudden intrusion, he finds himself caught between polite curiosity and an oppressive sense of being watched. The ordinary setting of the landlord’s kitchen and the familiar faces around him become the backdrop for an eerie, maze‑like confrontation with authority. Listeners are drawn into the unsettling atmosphere of uncertainty, where every question seems to multiply rather than resolve.
Language
de
Duration
~8 hours (466K characters)
Publisher of text edition
Project Gutenberg
Original publisher
Germany: Verlag die Schmiede, 1925.
Credits
Jeroen Hellingman and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net/ for Project Gutenberg (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive/Canadian Libraries)
Release date
2022-11-11
Rights
Public domain in the USA.
Subjects

1883–1924
Known for turning ordinary life into something unsettling and unforgettable, this Prague-born writer helped define the modern sense of anxiety, absurdity, and alienation. His stories still feel startlingly fresh, from a man waking up as an insect to characters trapped in baffling systems they cannot escape.
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