America

by Franz Kafka (Author), Michael Hofmann (Translator), Franz Kafka (Author), Michael Hofmann (Translator), Franz Kafka (Author)

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1998
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The story of Karl Rossman who, after an embarrassing sexual misadventure with a servant girl, is banished to America by his parents. Expected to redeem himself in the magical land of opportunity, he instead gets swept up in a whirlwind of strange escapades and dizzying adventures.

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The story of Karl Rossman who, after an embarrassing sexual misadventure with a servant girl, is banished to America by his parents. Expected to redeem himself in the magical land of opportunity, he instead gets swept up in a whirlwind of strange escapades and dizzying adventures.

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Format: Paperback
Pages: 256
Edition: New edition
Publisher: Vintage Classics
Published: 03 Jan 1998
ISBN 10: 0749399511
ISBN 13: 9780749399511
Book Overview: 'Perhaps the most interesting writer of his generation... A strange and disconcerting genius' Edwin Muir

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No other voice has borne truer witness to the dark of our times -- George Steiner He is the greatest German writer of our time. Such poets as Rilke or such novelists as Thomas Mann are dwarfs or plaster saints in comparison to him Vladimir Nabokov

Author Bio

Franz Kafka (1883-1924) was born into a Jewish family in Prague. In 1906 he received a doctorate in jurisprudence, and for many years he worked a tedious job as a civil service lawyer investigating claims at the State Worker's Accident Insurance Institute. He never married, and published only a few slim volumes of stories during his lifetime. Meditation, a collection of sketches, appeared in 1912; The Stoker: A Fragment in 1913; Metamorphosis in 1915; The Judgement in 1916; In the Penal Colony in 1919; and A Country Doctor in 1920. The great novels were not published until after his death from tuberculosis: America, The Trial and The Castle.