TY  - BOOK
AU  - Kafka,Franz
AU  - Hofmann,Michael
TI  - Amerika: the man who disappeared 
SN  - 0811215695
PY  - 2004///
CY  - New York, N.Y.
PB  - New Directions Books
KW  - Kafka, Franz,
KW  - Young men
KW  - Czechoslovakia
KW  - Fiction
KW  - Immigrants
KW  - New York (State)
KW  - United States
KW  - Social conditions
N1  - Translated from the German; Includes bibliographical references (page xv); Introduction -- Bibliography -- Amerika (the man who disappeared)
N2  - 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
ER  -