The Trial

About the author

Idris Parry

Franz Kafka (Author) Franz Kafka (1883-1924) was born of Jewish parents in Prague. Several of his story collections were published in his lifetime and his novels, The Trial, The Castle and Amerika, were published posthumously by his editor Max Brod.Idris Parry (Translator) Idris Parry was born in Wales in 1916. After war service he became a university teacher at Bangor, moving in 1963 to Mancheste r, where he was Professor of Modern German Literature, until he retired in 1977. Parry passed away in 2008.

Franz Kafka