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Amerika
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Amerika
‘No other voice has borne truer witness to the dark of our times’ George Steiner
After an embarrassing sexual misadventure with a servant girl, sixteen-year-old Karl Rossman is banished to America by his parents.
'Perhaps the most interesting writer of his generation... A strange and disconcerting genius' Edwin Muir
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Perhaps the most interesting writer of his generation... A strange and disconcerting genius — Edwin Muir
No other voice has borne truer witness to the dark of our times — George Steiner
After an embarrassing sexual misadventure with a servant girl, sixteen-year-old Karl Rossman is banished to America by his parents. Expected to redeem himself in the land of opportunity, Karl's youthful breeziness propels him into a series of bizarre escapades which threaten to ensnare him permanently.
Though dredged with humour and optimism, Kafka's first novel bears his distinctive hallmarks, as young Karl becomes mired in an ever more unreal and oppressive system.
The classic translation by Willa and Edwin Muir
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Amerika by Franz Kafka is highly esteemed for its profound exploration of modernity, capturing the complexities and uncertainties of the 20th century. Critics like George Steiner admire Kafka's ability to illuminate dark themes with unparalleled insight, while Vladimir Nabokov holds him in greater regard than many of his contemporaries, considering him a towering figure in German literature.
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ISBN: 9781784875626
Publisher: Vintage Publishing
Format: Paperback / softback
Date Published: 04 April 2019
Country: United Kingdom
Imprint: Vintage Classics
Audience: General / adult
DIMENSIONS
Spine width: 16.0mm
Width: 130.0mm
Height: 198.0mm
Weight: 184g
Pages: 256
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About the Author
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.
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