ON a fine day, his 30th birthday, Josef K is arrested by two officers, without any explanation. For a whole year Josef tries to find out what law he is supposed to have transgressed. Over that year he confronts a silent criminal justice system. At the end of the story, the two officers who arrested him take him outside the city and quite matter-of-factly execute him in the name of ‘the law’. Josef K does not protest. Before he dies, h