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Pages: 336, Paperback, Schocken

Franz Kafka's diaries and letters suggest that his fascination with America grew out of a desire to break away from his native Prague, even if only in his imagination. Kafka died before he could finish what he like to call his "American novel,: but he clearly entitled it Der Verschollene ("The Missing Person") in a letter to his fiancee, Felice Bauer, in 1912. Kafka began writing the novel that fall and wrote until the last completed chapter in 1914, but in wasn't until 1927, three years after his...

Free Worldwide Delivery : Amerika : Paperback : New Directions Publishing Corporation : 9780811215695 : 0811215695 : 09 Dec 2005 : Newly restored to the original text: for this new translation, Hofmann returned to Kafka s manuscripts, restoring matters of substance and detail, and even the book s original ending.

Pages: 189, Edition: 1st, Paperback, Fiction Collective 2

Kafka began the first of his three novels in 1911, but like the others, Amerika remained unfinished, and perhaps, as Klaus Mann suggested, "necessarily endless." Karl Rossman, the youthful hero of the novel, "a poor boy of seventeen," has been banished by his parents to America, following a scandal. There, with unquenchable optimism, he throws himself into adventure after misadventure, and experiences multiply as he makes his way into the heart of the country, to The Great Nature Theater of Oklahoma...

About this book Behind the book Reviews The Novels of Franz Kafka Franz Kafka is one of only a handful of writers whose names have entered into the vernacular: ‘Kafkaesque’, meaning bizarre, illogical, claustrophobic and, often, the product of a sinister, arbitrary bureaucracy. His three novels, two of which were unfinished, were published posthumously by his literary executor against his stated wishes. These books – unsettling, thought-provoking, yet with frequent flashes of humour – have left...

Pages: 2, Digital, University of Oklahoma

Kafka's first and funniest novel, Amerika tells the story of the young immigrant Karl Rossmann who, after an embarrassing sexual misadventure, finds himself 'packed off to America' by his parents. Expected to redeem himself in this magical land of opportunity, young Karl is swept up instead in a whirlwind of dizzying reversals, strange escapades, and picaresque adventures. Although Kafka never visited America, images of its vast landscape, dangers, and opportunities inspired this saga of the 'golden...

With the same expert balance of precision and nuance that marked his award-winning translation of The Castle, Mark Harman now restores the humor ad particularity of language in his translation of the critical edition of Der Verschollene. Here is the story of young Karl Rossman, who, following an incident involving a housemaid, is banished by his parents to America. With unquenchable optimism and in the company of two comic-sinister companions, he throws himself into misadventure, eventually heading...

Rotterdam. Museum Boymans-van Beuningen. MARTIN KIPPENBERGER: The Happy End of Franz Kafka's 'Amerika'. Unpaginated, including over 300 b&w plates. 4to, wraps. 1994.

Edited by Eva Meyer-Hermann and Susanne Neuburger. Essays by Kathleen Bühler, Diedrich Diederichsen, Manfred Hermes, Anke Kempkes, Martin Prinzhorn and Lucy McKenzie.