Amerika: The Missing Person: A New Translation, Based on the Restored Text by Fr

The Nile on eBay Amerika: The Missing Person by Franz Kafka From the author of The Metamorphosis and The Trial and one of the greatest writers of the twentieth century, his 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.Kafka began writing what he had entitled Der Verschollene (The Missing Person) in 1912 and wrote the last completed chapter in 1914. But it wasn't until 1927, three years after his death, that Max Brod, Kafka's friend and literary executor, edited the unfinished manuscript and published it as Amerika. FORMATPaperback LANGUAGEEnglish CONDITION

Brand New Review "We are not too far wrong to see in Karl Rossmann the explorer who maps the internal territory for the later Kafka hero Joseph K. of The Trial. It is a natural segue, after all, from the youth who lives to placate to the adult with the inescapable sense of guilt. In fact, we could propose Kafka as an artist in a lifelong search of the most accommodating conceit for his vision. Karl is the earliest of his eponymous heroes, all of them essentially one tormented soul whose hallucinatory landscape keeps changing." —E. L. Doctorow "More than eighty years after his death from tuberculosis at age forty, Kafka continues to defy simplifications, to force us to consider him anew. That's the effect of Mark Harman's new translation of Amerika." —Los Angeles Times Review Quote "We are not too far wrong to see in Karl Rossmann the explorer who maps the internal territory for the later Kafka hero Joseph K. of The Trial . It is a natural segue, after all, from the youth who lives to placate to the adult with the inescapable sense of guilt. In fact, we could propose Kafka as an artist in a lifelong search of the most accommodating conceit for his vision. Karl is the earliest of his eponymous heroes, all of them essentially one tormented soul whose hallucinatory landscape keeps changing." -E. L. Doctorow Details ISBN0805211616 Author Franz Kafka Language English ISBN-10 0805211616 ISBN-13 9780805211610 Media Book Format Paperback DEWEY FIC Short Title AMERIKA THE MISSING PERSON Translator Mark Harman Residence GW Birth 1883 Death 1924 Subtitle A New Translation, Based on the Restored Text Year 2011 Publication Date 2011-08-16 DOI 10.1604/9780805211610 Country of Publication United States AU Release Date 2011-08-16 NZ Release Date 2011-08-16 US Release Date 2011-08-16 UK Release Date 2011-08-16 Pages 336 Publisher Schocken Books Series The Schocken Kafka Library Imprint Schocken Books Replaces 9780805210644 Audience General We've got thisAt The Nile, if you're looking for it, we've got it.With fast shipping, low prices, friendly service and well over a million items - you're bound to find what you want, at a price you'll love! TheNile_Item_ID:37142150;