El proceso (Batscafo)

Someone must have slandered Josef K., because, without having done anything wrong, he was arrested one morning. Thus begins this masterpiece of literature that was published for the first time in 1925 by Max Brod based on the manuscripts left by Franz Kafka. Josef K., the protagonist, is accused of a crime that he will never know about and finds himself involved in a tangle from which he will not be able to get out. Nobody knows who directs the gears that lead to the arrest and the subsequent process. The situation in which the protagonist finds himself, despite being apparently absurd, seems very plausible to us. In the novel appears lawyers, judges, ushers, and guards who, together, give a shocking image of the mechanisms of the Law and the State. A feeling of guilt will grow in Josef K., which will lead to his submission to the process and which will lead to the unexpected ending of the book...