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The Trial of Joseph K.

The importance of Kafka’s The Trial is undeniable and so is its timeliness. As Manos Stefanidis puts it “If books could change the world, if ideas had the power to chasten the human beast, then merely reading the Trial should have prevented the Holocaust”. He continues by adding “books, as is the case for all works of art in general, possess the magical ability to transcend time, become independent from the era they were created in, and emit their energy ad infinitum”. This is the part that Yiannis Kolios’ engravings, included in The Trial of Joseph K, are trying to serve by examining and highlight the “obsessive, bleak images the author describes” and by transforming the text’s invisible essence in “painfully, tangibly, controllably visible”. Each engraving is accompanied by excerpts of Franz Kafka’s The Trial, selected by the Greek artist, thus making the book readable even for someone who has not read the original.

The book will be presented by: Manos Stefanidis (Art Historian, Assistant Professor of Theater Studies at the University of Athens), Yorgos Veis (Poet and Ambassador) and Yannis Kolios. The journalist Ritsa Masoura, will moderate the discussion.

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