What Secret Terrors Lurked in the Shadows of Kafka's Infamous Trial We weren’t able to create a summary for you. Refresh your page to try again. The Trial is a novel written by Franz Kafkain 1914 and 1915 and published posthumously on 26 April 1925. Kafka'sTrial has to be up there as one of the biggest literary ice axes of all time. The Trial follows the incredible ill fortune of one Josef K., who wakes up one morning to discover that he's been arrested on unnamed charges. There is a literary-critical study by Mark Spilka, Dickens and Kafka: A Mutual Interpretation, which brings together the unlikely pairing of the modernist Kafka with the most popular of all Victorian authors. Kafka runs the intelligence community now. The Boundary Between Life and Terror. Kafka’s anxieties proved prophetic.Discrete incidents gathered, in his sight, into a looming shadow. Kafka made up his fictive worlds not only out of inner anxieties but also out of acts of acute perception. In Franz Kafka’s novel The Trial, first published in 1925, a year after its author’s death, Josef K. is arrested, but can’t seem to find out what he’s accused of. The Trial Chapter 1 Summary. The Trial by Kafka :Inthe Light of Existentialism and Absurdism.The absurdism derived from existentialism , nihilism and so on. To the absurdists, the entire life of humanbeing seems to be meaningless.