Entering New York harbor, the young immigrant Karl Rossmann sees the Statue of Liberty, "her arm with the sword stretched upward." This forbidding introduction sets the tone for Kafka's narrative about an innocent European astray in an ultra-modern America that is both a fantasy...
Am rica (El fogonero, o El desaparecido) es una novela del escritor Franz Kafka, iniciada en 1911 que dej inconclusa en 1912 y publicada p stumamente en 1927. Desde 1982 se publica con el t tulo original que Kafka pens "El desaparecido". Fue Max Brod quien cambi dicho t tulo...
Karl Rossman has been banished by his parents to America, following a family scandal. There, with unquenchable optimism, he throws himself into the strange experiences that lie before him as he slowly makes his way into the interior of the great continent. Although...
Michael Hofmann's startlingly visceral and immediate translation revives Kafka's great comedy, and captures a new Kafka, free from Prague and loose in the new world, a Kafka shot through with light in this highly charged and enormously nuanced translation. Kafka began the first...
Michael Hofmann's startlingly visceral and immediate translation revives Kafka's great comedy, and captures a new Kafka, free from Prague and loose in the new world, a Kafka shot through with light in this highly charged and enormously nuanced translation. Kafka began the first...
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...
Am rica (El fogonero, o El desaparecido) es una novela del escritor Franz Kafka, iniciada en 1911 que dej inconclusa en 1912 y publicada p stumamente en 1927.Desde 1982 se publica con el t tulo original que Kafka pens "El desaparecido". Fue Max Brod quien cambi dicho t tulo...