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by Franz Kafka
Someone must have been telling lies about Josef K., he knew he had done nothing wrong but, one morning, he was arrested.
- Arrest - Conversation with Mrs. Grubach - Then Miss Bürstner
- First Cross-examination
- In the empty Courtroom - The Student - The Offices
- Miss Bürstner's Friend
- The whip-man
- K.'s uncle - Leni
- Lawyer - Manufacturer - Painter
- Block, the businessman - Dismissing the lawyer
- In the Cathedral
- End
As his eyesight failed, K. saw the two gentlemen cheek by cheek, close in front of his face, watching the result. "Like a dog!" he said, it was as if the shame of it should outlive him.