Amerika : the missing person : a new translation, based on the restored text / Franz Kafka ; translated and with a preface by Mark Harman.
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TextLanguage: English Original language: German Publication details: New York : Schocken Books, c2008.Edition: 1st edDescription: xxxiii, 299 p. ; 22 cmISBN: - 0805211616
- 0805242112
- 9780805211610
- 9780805242119
- Amerika. English
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Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
From 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.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [295]-299).
Translated from the German.