Torbjørn Færøvik: Franz Kafka Reminds Us What Is at Stake

One autumn day a hundred years ago, a small Berlin publishing house brought out a modest book that passed almost unnoticed. Its author was unknown—and, to make matters worse, already dead by the time of publication. Today, Franz Kafka’s novel The Trial feels more urgent than ever. It opens with a line that has become one of the most unsettling in world literature: “Someone must have been