Kafka Americana

Lethem, Jonathan;Scholz, Carter

ISBN 10: 189228443X / ISBN 13: 9781892284433

Editore: Subterranean Press, Burton, Michigan, U.S.A., 1999

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This is book number 142 of 600 and is signed by both authors on an early page. Codice articolo 004369

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Titolo: Kafka Americana

Casa editrice: Subterranean Press, Burton, Michigan, U.S.A.

Data di pubblicazione: 1999

Legatura: Hardcover

Condizione: Near Fine

Condizione sovraccoperta: Near Fine

autografato: Signed By Both Authors

Edizione: Limited/Numbered

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In an act of literary appropriation by turns witty, affectionate, and shameless, Jonathan Lethem and Carter Scholz seize a helpless Franz Kafka by the lapels and thrust him into the cultural wreckage of twentieth-century America. In the collaboratively written "Receding Horizon," Hollywood welcomes Kafka as a scriptwriter for Frank Capra's It's A Wonderful Life, with appropriately morbid results. Scholz's "The Amount to Carry" transports "the legal secretary of the Workman's Accident Insurance Institute" to a professional conference with fellow insurance executives Wallace Stevens and Charles Ives, for a night of musing on what can and can't be insured. And Lethem's "K for Fake" brings together Orson Welles, Jerry Lewis, and Rod Serling in a kangaroo trial where Kafka faces, needless to say, fraudulent charges. Taking Modernism's presiding genius for a literary joyride, the authors portray an absurd, ominous world that Kafka might have invented but could never have survived.

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Book by Lethem Jonathan Scholz Carter