The trial is a novel written by Franz Kafka from 1914 to 1915 and published in 1925. It is for sure his best-known work. The book tells the story of a man arrested and prosecuted by a remote, inaccessible, frightening authority, even if he's not aware of his crime. In writing this work Kafka was eavily influenced by Dostoyevsky's Crime and Punishment and The Brothers Karamazov. The trial is worldwide considered a masterpiece of the 20th century literature.