Franz Kafka's Amerika (The Man Who Disappeared) at last has the translator it deserves. 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 of his three novels in 1911, but like the others, Amerika remained unfinished, and perhaps, as Klaus Mann suggested, "necessarily endless." Karl Rossman, the ...
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Franz Kafka's Amerika (The Man Who Disappeared) at last has the translator it deserves. 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 of his three novels in 1911, but like the others, Amerika remained unfinished, and perhaps, as Klaus Mann suggested, "necessarily endless." Karl Rossman, the youthful hero of the novel, "a poor boy of seventeen," has been banished by his parents to America, following a scandal. There, with unquenchable optimism, he throws himself into adventure after misadventure, and experiences multiply as he makes his way into the heart of the country, to The Great Nature Theater of Oklahoma. In creating this new translation, Hofmann, as he explains in his introduction, returned to the manuscript version of the book, restoring matters of substance and detail. Fragments which have never before been presented in English are now reinstated - including the book's original "ending."
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Add this copy of Amerika: Roman to cart. $18.41, good condition, Sold by Wonder Book - Member ABAA/ILAB rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Frederick, MD, UNITED STATES.
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Good. S.l. : S. Fischer Verlag, 1953. 12mo. 361pp. German. Good book. Good dust jacket. Dust jacket worn along edges; rear joint torn about halfway from tail, rear flap fold torn about 2" up; two 1.5" tears on front panel. Minor shelfwear. Owner's name embossed on title and half title. Pages slightly tanned. Inquire if you need further information.
Add this copy of Amerika: Roman (Gesammelte Werke) to cart. $23.95, good condition, Sold by bibliophonics rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Rapid River, MI, UNITED STATES, published 1946 by Max Brod-Schocken Books.
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Good. Book. 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall. Brown cloth boards, gilt cover signature and spine titles on black field, moderate wear. Pages very good, clean. Bind strong. In German. Vintage bookstore label inside frt. board: Adler's Foreign Books, 114 4th Avenue, New York. 315 pages. Few stamps, number marked at spine. Printed in USA.
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