More than 100 years after it was written, the entire manuscript of Franz Kafka’s novel<em> The Trial</em> is going on show at the Martin-Gropius-Bau in Berlin. It will be displayed page-by-page in the order given to it by Kafka’s friend, executor and editor, Max Brod. The Berlin presentation is based on the 2013/2014 exhibition <em>The Entire Trial </em>at the Museum of Modern Literature in Marbach; the manuscript is part of the collections of the German Literature Archive in Marbach.<br /> <br /> The precious manuscript was purchased at a London auction in 1988 for approximately DM3.5 million in a collective effort by the German Federal Government, the Cultural Foundation of the German Federal States, and the State of Baden-Württemberg, and at the time was the most expensive manuscript ever to be bought at auction. <p>The exhibition is complemented by screenings of Orson Welles’ 1962 film adaptation and photographs from Klaus Wagenbach’s collection. The photograph selection was curated by Klaus Wagenbach and Hans-Gerd Koch. Translations of <em>The Trial</em> in more than 60 different languages will also be on display.</p>