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begins having a bank cashier, Josef K., accused of an unspecified crime and informed here to await a court summons. Josef makes an attempt to figure out what he has “accomplished” but is fulfilled only with chaos and despair, and his sanity continues to fray as he goes by means of this maddening ordeal.
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