By

Read By

Dick Hill

Length

8 hrs and 29 mins

Audiobook Review

The Trial

1925

Franz Kafka

Overall
Performance

Kafka's Satirical Gem

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Excellent, Unforgettable, Best of the nest

Very good, thoroughly enjoyed, 

Good, Solid, Enjoyed many aspects

STAR RATINGS GUIDE

THE BIRDICT

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I love the absurdity of this work. It is such a clever way of expressing the sinister nature of authoritarian regimes and how impossible it is to fight that sort of power.

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SQUAWKING THE TALK

Dick Hill is one of the most prolific narrators in the business and this is yet another excellent performance. His voice takes on what I can only describe as an old-timey quality; a sort of reedy Madmen style. And yet he manages to convey so much, both through tone and timing.

SHALL I COMPARE THEE TO...​​

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The stilted dystopian existence and subtle satire has a very similar feel to 1984.
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ABOUT

The Trial

THE BLURB

The Trial by Franz Kafka is one of the great novels of the 20h century. Josef K. is an ordinary man who is arrested on his 30th birthday. He is prosecuted by a remote, inaccessible authority, yet the nature of his crime is never revealed to him. One year after his arrest he is executed. His last words describe his own death: "Like a dog!"