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- Publication Date
- 2011-08-16
- Pages
- 336
- ISBN
- 9780805211610
- Book Title
- Amerika: the Missing Person : a New Translation, Based on the Restored Text
- Book Series
- The Schocken Kafka Library
- Publisher
- Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
- Item Length
- 7.9 in
- Publication Year
- 2011
- Format
- Trade Paperback
- Language
- English
- Item Height
- 0.7 in
- Genre
- Fiction
- Topic
- Classics, Absurdist, Literary
- Item Weight
- 9.2 Oz
- Item Width
- 5.2 in
- Number of Pages
- 336 Pages
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Publisher
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
ISBN-10
0805211616
ISBN-13
9780805211610
eBay Product ID (ePID)
109123258
Product Key Features
Book Title
Amerika: the Missing Person : a New Translation, Based on the Restored Text
Number of Pages
336 Pages
Language
English
Publication Year
2011
Topic
Classics, Absurdist, Literary
Genre
Fiction
Book Series
The Schocken Kafka Library
Format
Trade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height
0.7 in
Item Weight
9.2 Oz
Item Length
7.9 in
Item Width
5.2 in
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Trade
LCCN
2008-013393
Reviews
Praise for Mark Harman's translation of The Castle "Semantically accurate to an admirable degree, faithful to Kafka's nuances, responsive to the tempo of his sentences and to the larger music of his paragraph construction. For the general reader or for the student, it will be the translation of preference for some time to come." --J. M. Coetzee, The New York Review of Books "There is a great deal to applaud in Harman's translation. It gives us a much better sense of Kafka's uncompromising and disturbing originality as a prose master than we have heretofore had in English." --Robert Alter, The New Republic "A major and long-awaited event in English language publishing [and] a wonderful piece of news for all Kafka readers, who, for more than half a century, have had to rely on flawed, superannuated editions. Harman is to be commended for his success in capturing the fresh, fluid, almost breathless style of Kafka's original manuscript." --Professor Mark M. Anderson, Department of Germanic Languages, Columbia University, "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
Dewey Edition
22
Dewey Decimal
833/.912
Synopsis
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 . Kafka's 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., 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.
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2008
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