The Trial

What is K. doing in the opening of “The Arrest”? How does the narrator describe the reason for his arrest in this chapter?

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The novel begins with the protagonist, Chief Financial Officer Josef K., asleep in bed on his thirtieth birthday. "Someone must have slandered Josef K., for one morning, without having done anything truly wrong, he was arrested."