Amerika : the man who disappeared /
Kafka, Franz, 1883-1924.
Amerika : the man who disappeared / Franz Kafka ; translated and with an introduction by Michael Hofmann. - 1st New Directions pbk. ed. - New York, N.Y. : New Directions Books, 2004. - xiii, 216 pages ; 21 cm
Translated from the German.
Includes bibliographical references (page xv).
Introduction -- Bibliography -- Amerika (the man who disappeared).
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. Although Kafka's first novel (begun in 1911 and never finished), can be read as a menacing allegory of modern life, it is also infused with a quite un-Kafkaesque blitheness and sunniness, brought to life in this lyrical translation that returns to the original manuscript of the book.
0811215695 9780811215695
Kafka, Franz, 1883-1924 --Translations into English.
Young men--Czechoslovakia--Fiction.
Immigrants--New York (State)--Fiction.
United States--Social conditions--Fiction.
Amerika : the man who disappeared / Franz Kafka ; translated and with an introduction by Michael Hofmann. - 1st New Directions pbk. ed. - New York, N.Y. : New Directions Books, 2004. - xiii, 216 pages ; 21 cm
Translated from the German.
Includes bibliographical references (page xv).
Introduction -- Bibliography -- Amerika (the man who disappeared).
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. Although Kafka's first novel (begun in 1911 and never finished), can be read as a menacing allegory of modern life, it is also infused with a quite un-Kafkaesque blitheness and sunniness, brought to life in this lyrical translation that returns to the original manuscript of the book.
0811215695 9780811215695
Kafka, Franz, 1883-1924 --Translations into English.
Young men--Czechoslovakia--Fiction.
Immigrants--New York (State)--Fiction.
United States--Social conditions--Fiction.