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Amerika: The Missing Person: A New Translation, Based on the Restored Text (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780805211610)
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Franz Kafka
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xFrom the author of The Metamorphosis and The Trial and one of the greatest writers of the twentieth century, his first--and funniest--novel.
Amerika tells the story of the young Karl Rossmann who, after an incident involving a housemaid, is banished by his parents to America. 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. Kafka began writing what he had entitled Der Verschollene (The Missing Person) in 1912 and wrote the last completed chapter in 1914. But it wasn't until 1927, three years after his death, that Max Brod, Kafka's friend and literary executor, edited the unfinished manuscript and published it as Amerika.
Author: Franz Kafka
ISBN-10: 0805211616
ISBN-13: 9780805211610
Publisher: Schocken Books Inc
Language: English
Published: 08/16/2011
Pages: 336
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.70lbs
Size: 7.95h x 5.31w x 0.69d
Amerika tells the story of the young Karl Rossmann who, after an incident involving a housemaid, is banished by his parents to America. 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. Kafka began writing what he had entitled Der Verschollene (The Missing Person) in 1912 and wrote the last completed chapter in 1914. But it wasn't until 1927, three years after his death, that Max Brod, Kafka's friend and literary executor, edited the unfinished manuscript and published it as Amerika.
Author: Franz Kafka
ISBN-10: 0805211616
ISBN-13: 9780805211610
Publisher: Schocken Books Inc
Language: English
Published: 08/16/2011
Pages: 336
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.70lbs
Size: 7.95h x 5.31w x 0.69d
By Franz Kafka
xFRANZ KAFKA was born in 1883 in Prague, where he lived most of his life. During his lifetime, he published only a few short stories, including "The Metamorphosis," "The Judgment," and "The Stoker." He died in 1924, before completing any of his full-length novels. At the end of his life, Kafka asked his lifelong friend and literary executor Max Brod to burn all his unpublished work. Brod overrode those wishes. MARK HARMAN, a native of Dublin who has written extensively about modern German and Irish literature, is a professor of German and English at Elizabeth College in Elizabeth, Pennsylvania. His translation of The Castle received the Modern Language Association's first Lois Roth Award in 1998.
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