A stunning philosophical novel, written more than a century ago and already a classic of world literature, but absolutely modern, helps to see modern realities without embellishment and draw conclusions about how detrimental inaction can be. For the first time, the text of the novel includes author's drafts; the publication is also supplemented with unique reproductions of the handwritten pages of The Trial. A novel about the last year of the life of Joseph K., bogged down in the millstones of a stupid and ruthless judicial machine, is an impartial portrait of a bureaucracy familiar to readers of the 21st century no worse than Franz Kafka's contemporaries, and a metaphor for monotonous human life without joy, love and meaning. Bank manager K. is being tried, but it is not clear why. The hero is unable to achieve justice, does not distinguish manipulation from warmth, and conscientiousness - from the arbitrariness of officials, and until his last breath takes his absurd state for granted. The new translation of The Process, made by Leonid Bershidsky, is supplemented by fragments of Franz Kafka's drafts that have not previously been published as part of the novel. He re-builds the chronology of K. 's misfortunes and masterly conveys the intonation of the original text: "the smooth, sometimes too formal, slightly shy German of the brilliant Prague Jew."