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The readers anxiety can verge on terrorkafka, master of the envelope, creates the atmosphere of a nightmare that seems real in which his character is beset by the impersonal forces of authority, the police and the bureaucracy, that will not tell him what he is guilty of. The trial 152 pages the metamorphosis 41 pages before the law 2 pages in the penal colony 23 pages a hunger artist 8 pages jackals and arabs 3 pages a report for an academy 8 pages a country doctor 5 pages an imperial message 1 pages the judgement 9 pages the great wall of china 11 pages the hunter gracchus 4 pages. In it, a man wakes up one morning to find himself under arrest for an offence which is never explained. The main characters of this classics, fiction story are josef k, fraulein elsa.