At the end of this novel, he encounters two men in his apartment, who take him away to a quarry and kill him with a butcher knife, and he dies "like a dog."
The protagonist of this novel unsuccessfully begs a man not to whip two officials who were being punished as a result of his actions, and comes back to find them still being whipped the next day. The protagonist of this novel attracts a washerwoman who offers to help him. This novel's central character studies Italian to prepare for a tourist he meets in a cathedral, where he is told a (*) parable of a man "Before the Law." At the end of this novel, he encounters two men in his apartment, who take him away to a quarry and kill him with a butcher knife, and he dies "like a dog." For 10 points, name this novel by Franz Kafka in which Joseph K. is inextricably involved in an incomprehensible legal proceeding.
The protagonist of this novel unsuccessfully begs a man not to whip two officials who were being punished as a result of his actions, and comes back to find them still being whipped the next day.
The Trial [or Der Prozess]