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

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

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

by Franz Kafka
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Book Overview

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.
ISBN9780805211610
Author Franz Kafka
PublisherSchocken Books Inc
GenreLiterature
FormatPaperback
PublishedAugust 2011
LanguageENG- English
Pages336
Weight1.0 lb
Target AudienceAdults
Print SizeStandard Print

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Stanley Corngold is a professor emeritus of German and comparative literature at Princeton. He has published widely on modern German writers and thinkers (Nietzsche, Musil, Kraus, Mann, Benjamin, Adorno, among others), but for the most part he has been translating and writing on the work of Franz Kafka. In 2011 he was elected a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences.

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