Summary
Amerika: Kafka’s Optimistic Journey
A lyrical translation of Kafka’s first novel—a menacing allegory of modern life.
Karl Rossman has been banished by his parents to America following a family scandal. There, with unquenchable optimism, he throws himself into the strange experiences that lie before him as he slowly makes his way into the interior of the great continent.
Kafka’s first novel (begun in 1911 and never finished) is infused with a quite un-Kafkaesque blith…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780241372586 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0241372585 |
| Author: | Franz Kafka |
| Publisher: | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Imprint: | Penguin Classics |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 256 |
| Release Date: | 16 September 2019 |
| Weight: | 194g |
| Dimensions: | 197mm x 130mm x 15mm |
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No other voice has borne truer witness to the dark of our times – George SteienrHe is the greatest German writer of our time. Such poets as Rilke or such novelists as Thomas Mann are dwarfs or plaster saints in comparison to him – Vladimir NabokovIt was Kafka who made me understand that one can write differently – Gabriel García Márquez
About The Author
Franz Kafka
Franz Kafka (1883-1924) was born of Jewish parents in Prague. Several of his story collections were published in his lifetime and his novels, The Trial, The Castle and Amerika, were published posthumously by his editor Max Brod.
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