by Franz Kafka
While Amerika was posthumously published from an incomplete manuscript, it still works. Perhaps this is due to the dream-like, fragmented narrative we expect from the author. There are some confusing moments, such as the reappearance of an old friend to whom the reader has never been introduced, but...
Cover of the first edition of 'Der Heizer' ('The Stoker')Publisher's NoteTranslator's Preface & Notes--Amerika: The Missing PersonFragments:Brunelda's DepartureAt a street corner Karl saw ...They traveled for two days ...AcknowledgmentsChronologyBibliographyA Note on the Type
The first chapter (The Stoker) was published as a short story and is included in The Metamorphosis. The usual themes of alienation/rejection, aspiring to please/fit in, being bemused in unfamiliar territory are there, but it is generally more optimistic and realistic than his other novels, though th...
This novel is completely different from all the others Kafka's works. I mean, it's not kafkaesque, it's picaresque. Amerika has something of Dickens and it doesn't seem written by an european novelist. Kafka has written about the myth of a new world seen like a land of false possibilities where a ne...
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