Kafka's short story dramatizes the problematic relationship between power and justice by channeling parabolic imagery from the depths of our social existence and psyche. The Kafka expert Renate Weiner and the Florentine criminal jurist Robert Bartoli, a leading Italian scholar of law and literature, offer commentaries on Kafka's text from their respective disciplines.

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Roberto Bartoli, Università degli Studi di Firenze; Renate Werner, Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster