304 pages
English language
Published Aug. 6, 1956 by Secker and Warburg.
304 pages
English language
Published Aug. 6, 1956 by Secker and Warburg.
Byzantine and claustrophobic novel of a man arrested by the secret police and charged with an unspecified crime. Unable to defend himself and disorientated by the legal process at work around him the man soon becomes apathetic and acquiescent, accepting his eventual sentence as inevitable.