The New Trial is Peter Weiss?s final drama, completed only months before his death in 1982 and never before published in English. One of Europe?s most important twentieth century playwrights?often considered as influential as Brecht and Beckett?Weiss is best known to American audiences as the author of the Broadway play Marat/Sade and the three-volume novel The Aesthetics of Resistance, which has elicited comparison with Joyce?s Ulysses and Garcia Marquez?s One Hundred Years of Solitude. Initially influenced by Franz Kafka and later by the American Henry Miller, Weiss worked to expose the hypocrisy, the deception, and the nature of aggression in the contemporary world. A transformative ?updating? of Kafka?s novel The Trial, The New Trial presents a surreal, hallucinatory look at the life of ?Josef K.,? chief attorney in an enormous multinational firm that...
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