The Trial Kafka Franz (2001)

Written in 1914 but not published until 1925, a year after Kafkas death, this terrifying tale follows Josef K., a respectable bank officer who is suddenly and inexplicably arrested and must defend himself against a charge about which he can get no information. Whether read as an existential tale, a parable, or a prophecy of the excesses of modern bureaucracy joined to the madness of totalitarianism, it has resonated with chilling truth for generations of readers.