If you loved
Books like The Trial
The Trial by Franz Kafka: what to read next, and why.
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The Metamorphosis
Kafka at his shortest and strangest, with the same dread of an absurd, unexplained fate landing on an ordinary man.
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Nineteen Eighty-Four
Takes the faceless-authority fear of The Trial and builds an entire state around it, with far more plot and politics.
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The Stranger
Another short, cold novel about a man judged by a system that cares less about what he did than who he seems to be.