The Trial

Other by Franz Kafka read by Rupert Degas

Released September 2007

Tracklist

  • CD 1
  • 1
    Chapter 1 Arrest; Conversation with Frau Grubach then Fräulein Bürstner
    6:30
  • 2
    K scarcely listened to what was being said...
    7:23
  • 3
    He paced up and down a few times...
    6:29
  • 4
    When he was fully dressed...
    7:12
  • 5
    The people were still at the window...
    6:42
  • 6
    K stood still, watching them...
    7:08
  • 7
    K looked on in silence...
    6:50
  • 8
    ‘You’re way off beam,’ said K...
    7:07
  • 9
    She made a tour of the room...
    7:08
  • 10
    Then there was some knocking on the door...
    5:20
  • CD 2
  • 1
    Chapter 2 First Hearing
    7:14
  • 2
    K went further down the street...
    6:40
  • 3
    Two men were talking just by the door...
    6:51
  • 4
    K broke off and looked down into the hall...
    6:53
  • 5
    When K broke off at this point...
    7:13
  • 6
    ‘So that’s it,’ exclaimed K...
    1:54
  • 7
    Chapter 3 In the Empty Court Room; the Student; the Lawyers’ Offices
    5:47
  • 8
    They were dog-eared old books...
    6:01
  • 9
    ‘Do you know the examining magistrate...’
    5:52
  • 10
    After he had put aside his reservations...
    5:47
  • 11
    The two had already disappeared...
    6:43
  • CD 3
  • 1
    ‘Perhaps,’ K continued...
    6:09
  • 2
    ‘You don’t believe I am accused of anything...’
    7:19
  • 3
    K did not reply...
    7:13
  • 4
    ‘Don’t you want to sit down here for a bit?’
    4:44
  • 5
    Chapter 4 Fräulein Bürstner’s Female Friend
    7:04
  • 6
    Frau Grubach felt really quite helpless.
    4:47
  • 7
    ‘You asked my friend, in writing...’
    5:34
  • 8
    Chapter 5 The Thrasher
    7:56
  • 9
    He dried his face...
    6:53
  • 10
    Chapter 6 The Uncle; Leni
    6:46
  • 11
    ‘And what do you now have to say?’
    6:50
  • CD 4
  • 1
    ‘My dear uncle,’ said K...
    6:37
  • 2
    In one corner of the room...
    7:19
  • 3
    Not a word of this whole statement...
    7:23
  • 4
    Then a noise from the hall...
    7:09
  • 5
    ‘No,’ replied Leni, shaking her head slowly.
    7:06
  • 6
    Chapter 7 Lawyer; Industrialist; Painter
    6:38
  • 7
    ‘The room the lawyers share is on the second floor...’
    7:20
  • 8
    Their job was not easy in other respects...
    7:39
  • 9
    ‘At times like that, one has to say...’
    5:44
  • 10
    What did the lawyer want to achieve...
    6:31
  • 11
    These days shame no longer played any part...
    6:49
  • CD 5
  • 1
    The deputy director...
    6:41
  • 2
    For no particular reason...
    6:21
  • 3
    K took the letter and put it in his pocket...
    7:23
  • 4
    He immediately rode off in a cab...
    6:13
  • 5
    K pointed at the door.
    7:20
  • 6
    The sight of the picture seemed...
    7:20
  • 7
    Once again a girl behind the door began to ask...
    6:18
  • 8
    The painter had pulled his armchair nearer to the bed...
    4:28
  • 9
    ‘Mere legends do nothing to change my opinion...’
    7:20
  • 10
    ‘At that stage I’m free then...’
    7:04
  • 11
    ‘In saying this...’
    4:51
  • 12
    K had not been thinking what he was doing...
    5:06
  • CD 6
  • 1
    Chapter 8 Block the Merchant; the Lawyer is Given His Notice
    6:50
  • 2
    Leni stood by the range...
    5:35
  • 3
    K turned round.
    6:03
  • 4
    ‘I’ll probably have to go there more often now too...’
    6:06
  • 5
    I’m hearing it all now, thought K...
    6:54
  • 6
    ‘The way you’re sitting there side by side!’
    6:32
  • 7
    K looked at him for a long time.
    6:04
  • 8
    K was completely composed when the lawyer had finished...
    7:19
  • 9
    The man’s appearance itself gave nothing away...
    7:40
  • 10
    From the moment the lawyer started speaking...
    5:18
  • 11
    Block was very pleased that she had come...
    5:02
  • CD 7
  • 1
    Block glanced fleetingly at K...
    4:52
  • 2
    Chapter 9 In the Cathedral
    7:26
  • 3
    K, who otherwise was merely mechanically watching...
    6:21
  • 4
    K went back to the main entrance...
    5:09
  • 5
    Smiling, K followed the old man...
    6:55
  • 6
    Since everything was now out in the open..
    6:59
  • 7
    K waited for him down below by the steps.
    5:05
  • 8
    ‘The doorkeeper deceived the man, then,’ said K...
    6:15
  • 9
    ‘You know the story better than I do...’
    4:58
  • 10
    ‘Opinions differ as to whether the doorkeeper...’
    5:49
  • 11
    Chapter 10 The End
    6:20
  • 12
    The girl had meanwhile turned into a side street...
    6:21

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