 | Marjorie Perloff - Literary Criticism - 1991 - 264 pages
...ambiguous his tone, wrote prose whose syntax is perfectly lucid. "Someone must have been telling lies about Joseph K., for without having done anything wrong he was arrested one fine morning." Whatever mysteries and complexities are contained in that opening sentence of The Trial, there is no... | |
 | Susan E. Schreiner - Philosophy - 1994 - 292 pages
...limit. Kafka opens his novel with the following sentence: "Someone must have been spreading lies about Joseph K. for without having done anything wrong, he was arrested one morning." TheJoban figure is arrested for an unidentified crime. Unlike the biblical Job, he does not... | |
 | Lois Parkinson Zamora, Wendy B. Faris - Literary Criticism - 1995 - 598 pages
...opening sentences with those of The Trial by Franz Kafka: "Someone must have been telling lies about Joseph K., for without having done anything wrong he was arrested one fine morning"; or that of The Stranger by Albert Camus: "Mother died today. Or, maybe, yesterday; I can't be sure";... | |
 | John V. Orth - Reference - 1995 - 220 pages
...novel The Trial, which begins with the chilling sentence: "Someone must have been telling lies about Joseph K., for without having done anything wrong he was arrested one fine morning." The accused not only may present testimony in his or her own behalf, but also is entitled to "confront"... | |
 | Shlomo Bîderman - Religion - 1995 - 278 pages
...perspective even before he himself knows about the trial: "Someone must have been telling lies about Joseph K., for without having done anything wrong he was arrested one fine morning." Says Corngold: "K.'s own interpretation has been preread by the narrator. It is forced on him, as it... | |
 | Sander L. Gilman - Biography & Autobiography - 1995 - 348 pages
...essential problem of The Trial (1914-15): "someone must have been telling lies (vetleumdet) about Josef. K., for without having done anything wrong he was arrested one fine morning" (T, 1). The controversy of his trial and the authorities who eventually condemn him to being slaughtered... | |
 | Whittaker Chambers - Literary Criticism - 1996 - 408 pages
...The story begins with a sentence as direct as a news lead: "Someone must have been telling lies about Joseph K., for without having done anything wrong, he was arrested one fine morning." Divine Justice is as preposterous (to human understanding) as divine Grace. The divine detectives who... | |
 | Steven Earnshaw - Postmodernism - 1997 - 340 pages
...shall grant me justice (Shylock, Merchant of Venice lH 3) Someone must have been telling lies about Joseph K , for without having done anything wrong he was arrested one fine morning (Franz Kafka, The Trial) Just Postmodermsm offers essays on a wide variety of topics that continue... | |
 | Alice Bach - Religion - 1997 - 314 pages
...place. CHAPTER 3 A story of reading the story of Genesis Someone must have been telling lies about Joseph K., for without having done anything wrong, he was arrested one fine morning. Franz Kafka, The Trial On land it's much preferred for ladies not to say a word and she who holds her... | |
 | Richard Hendel - Design - 1998 - 236 pages
...Woodcut by Fritz Kredel. I h The arrest : Conversation with Frau Grubach, then Fräulein Bürstner Someone must have traduced Joseph K., for without...cook, who always brought him his breakfast at eight o 'clock, failed to appear on this occasion. That had never happened before. K. waited for a little... | |
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Someone must have been telling lies about Joseph K. for without having done anything wrong he was arrested one fine morning. 
