Amerika

Kafka, Franz & Doctorow, E.L. & Mann, Klaus & Brod, Max and Muir, Willa and Edwin

ISBN 10: 0805210644 / ISBN 13: 9780805210644

Editore: SCHOCKEN BOOKS, NEW YORK, 1996

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General wear and rubbed cover, About 1 inch rip on the bottom spine. No bookplate. Tight binding. DATE PUBLISHED: 1996 EDITION: 300. Codice articolo 075594

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Titolo: Amerika

Casa editrice: SCHOCKEN BOOKS, NEW YORK

Data di pubblicazione: 1996

Legatura: PAPER BACK BLACK

Illustratore: EMLEN ETTING

Condizione: GOOD.

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Riassunto:

Kafka's first and funniest novel, Amerika tells the story of the young immigrant Karl Rossmann who, after an embarrassing sexual misadventure, finds himself "packed off to America" by his parents. 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.
Although Kafka never visited America, images of its vast landscape, dangers, and opportunities inspired this saga of the "golden land." Here is a startlingly modern, fantastic and visionary tale of America "as a place no one has yet seen, in a historical period that can't be identified," writes E. L. Doctorow in his new foreword. "Kafka made his first novel from his own mind's mythic elements," Doctorow explains, "and the research data that caught his eye were bent like light rays in a field of gravity."

Informazioni sull?autore:

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 At the end of his life, Kafka asked his lifelong friend and literary executor Max Brod to burn all his unpublished work.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.