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Amerika: The Missing Person: A New Translation, Based on the Restored Text (The Schocken Kafka Library)

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UPC:
9780805211610
Maximum Purchase:
2 units
Binding:
Paperback
Publication Date:
2011-08-16
Release Date:
2011-08-16
Author:
Franz Kafka
Language:
english
Edition:
1
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Kafka began writing what he had entitled Der Verschollene (The Missing Person) in 1912 and wrote the last completed chapter in 1914. But it wasnt until 1927, three years after his death, that Max Brod, Kafkas friend and literary executor, edited the unfinished manuscript and published it as Amerika. Kafkas 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.