America Franz Kafka

Name: America By Franz Kafka
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America by Franz Kafka

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Summary

The story of Karl Rossman who, after an embarrassing sexual misadventure with a servant girl, is banished to America by his parents. Expected to redeem himself in the magical land of opportunity, he instead gets swept up in a whirlwind of strange escapades and dizzying adventures.

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America by Franz Kafka

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No other voice has borne truer witness to the dark of our times -- George Steiner
He is the greatest German writer of our time. Such poets as Rilke or such novelists as Thomas Mann are dwarfs or plaster saints in comparison to him * Vladimir Nabokov *

About Franz Kafka

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; The Metamorphosis in 1915; The Judgement in 1916; In the Penal Colony in 1919; and A Country Doctor in 1920. Only a few of his friends knew that Kafka was also at work on the great novels that were published after his death from tuberculosis: America, The Trial, and The Castle.

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Sku

GOR001769938

ISBN 13

9780749399511

ISBN 10

0749399511

Title

America by Franz Kafka

Author

Franz Kafka

Condition

Used - Very Good

Binding type

Paperback

Publisher

Vintage Publishing

Year published

19920123

Number of pages

256

Prizes

N/A

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Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.

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