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Amerika: The Missing Person: A New Translation, Based on the Restored Text

Amerika: The Missing Person: A New Translation, Based on the Restored Text - Paperback

by Franz Kafka
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Availability:In StockContributor:Franz KafkaSeries:Schocken Kafka LibraryPublish date:2011-08-16Pages:336
Language:EnglishPublisher:Schocken Books IncISBN-13:9780805211610ISBN-10:805211616UPC:9780805211610Book Category:FictionBook Subcategory:Classics, Literary, HumorousSize:7.95 x 5.31 x 0.69 inchesWeight:0.7011Product ID:SCQ7Y3ZS30
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.
Language:EnglishPublisher:Schocken Books IncISBN-13:9780805211610ISBN-10:805211616UPC:9780805211610Book Category:FictionBook Subcategory:Classics, Literary, HumorousSize:7.95 x 5.31 x 0.69 inchesWeight:0.7011Product ID:SCQ7Y3ZS30
FRANZ 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 At the end of his life, Kafka asked his lifelong friend and literary executor Max Brod to burn all his unpublished work.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.
Publisher: Schocken Books Inc

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