Amerika

Amerika

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Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Genres: Fiction Books, Classic Books & Novels, Literature: History & Criticism
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Pages: 299 pages
ISBN10: 0805210644
ISBN13: 9780805210644
Tags: Fiction Books, Classic Books & Novels, Literature: History & Criticism, Free Download, PDF Download
Language: en
Physical Form: PDF Book
Type: PDF
Translated by Willa and Edwin Muir
Foreword by E. L. Doctorow
Afterword by Max Brod
Kafka's first and funniest novel, "Amerika" tells the story of the young immigrant Karl Rossmann who, after an embarrassing sexual misadventure, finds himself "packed off to America" by his parents. 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.
Although Kafka never visited America, images of its vast landscape, dangers, and opportunities inspired this saga of the "golden land." Here is a startlingly modern, fantastic and visionary tale of America "as a place no one has yet seen, in a historical period that can't be identified," writes E. L. Doctorow in his new foreword. "Kafka made his novel from his own mind's mythic elements," Doctorow explains, "and the research data that caught his eye were bent like rays in a field of gravity."

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