| Amerika: The Missing Person: A New Translation, Based on the Restored Text Contributor(s): Kafka, Franz (Author) |
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ISBN: 0805211616 ISBN-13: 9780805211610 Publisher: Schocken Books Inc OUR PRICE: $15.30 Product Type: Paperback Published: August 2011 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Classics - Fiction | Literary - Fiction | Humorous - General |
| Dewey: FIC |
| LCCN: 2008013393 |
| Series: Schocken Kafka Library |
| Physical Information: 0.69" H x 5.31" W x 7.95" (0.70 lbs) 336 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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. Kafka's 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. |