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Amerika

Franz Kafka

Paperback | Pages: 336 pages

Rating: 3.75 | 21973 Users | 881 Reviews

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Original Title:	Amerika
ISBN:	0805210644 (ISBN13: 9780805210644)
Edition Language:	English
Characters:	Karl Rossmann, Robinson, Delamarche, Brunelda

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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 up instead in a whirlwind of dizzying reversals, strange escapades, and picaresque adventures. Although Kafka never visited America, images of its vast landscape, dangers, and opportunities inspired this saga of the "golden land." Here is a startlingly modern, fantastic and visionary tale of America "as a place no one has yet seen, in a historical period that can't be identified," writes E. L. Doctorow in his new foreword. "Kafka made his novel from his own mind's mythic elements," Doctorow explains, "and the research data that caught his eye were bent like rays in a field of gravity."

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Title	:	Amerika
Author	:	Franz Kafka
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	First Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 336 pages
Published	:	July 2nd 1996 by Schocken (first published 1927)
Categories	:	Fiction. Classics. Literature. European Literature. German Literature. Novels

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Ratings: 3.75 From 21973 Users | 881 Reviews

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Franz Kafka just watches, he doesnt commentAs the seventeen-year-old Karl Rossmann, who had been sent to America by his unfortunate parents because a maid had seduced him and had a child by him, sailed slowly into New York harbour, he suddenly saw the Statue of Liberty, which had already been in view for some time, as though in an intenser sunlight. The sword in her hand seemed only just to have been raised aloft, and the unchained winds blew about her form.And Karl Rossmann encounters many a

Life is too short. Don't walk - RUN - away from this book. Masochist that I am, I got more than two-thirds through the book and finally could not stand it anymore. Amerika is about this 16 year old boy named Karl who gets exiled to America by his German parents after impregnating a household servant. Just as he was bewildered and passive during the aforementioned fornication (the maid overtly seduced him), Karl remained so for the rest of the book (at least what I read). Repeatedly, and without

Well my friend Chak says to run from this book - she recommends it for "angst-ridden hipsters who aren't worth the trouble to punch" - which doesn't describe me - I like to think I am worth the trouble to punch. But I saw it in the store with this adorable Edward Gorey cover (totally uncredited) and knew it would be mine all mine. It smells like an old mausoleum but that's what I get for buying a book from the Eisenhower era.-----Wow. Weird, weird, weird. I liked the first third of Amerika quite

688. Der Verschollene = Amerika = The Man Who Disappeared = The Missing Person = Lost in America, Franz KafkaAmerika, also known as The Man Who Disappeared, The Missing Person and as Lost in America, is the incomplete first novel of author Franz Kafka (18831924), written between 1911 and 1914 and published posthumously in 1927. The story describes the bizarre wanderings of sixteen-year-old European immigrant Karl Roßmann, who was forced to go to New York City to escape the scandal of his

Ne znam, možda da napravim policu "knjige koje me nisu ubile, a baš su se potrudile"?Ne radi se o tome da Kafka nije dobar, naprotiv, previše je dobar u onome što pokušava, a to je da vas (mene) natera da se grčite od transfera blama, da vas (mene) glavom nadole uroni u depresivnu epizodu, da ubije životnu radost u vama (meni). Da, znam da je on sam smatrao kako je zapravo humorista. Dobro, važi. Da, jeste pisac neverovatno bizarne mašte, zapletenih tokova misli, upečatljivo groznih paklenih

Another review vanished! How Kafkaesque! Especially when it used to be called The Man who Disappeared. It's probably metamorphosised, gone on trial and banished to the goodreads penal colony.Fortunately I saved a copy:Possible spoilers but the story is unfinished anyway.The story is too incomplete to warrant a higher rating but the writing is good. Well, at the start anyway. This is the bildungsroman of a 17 year old Karl Rossmann, who is dispatched to Amerikafka by his parents. It is quite a

جایی که حسن نیت در کار نباشد محال است بتوانی از خودت دفاع کنیبنظرم آمریکا را می توان چکامه شادی کافکا نامید آنهم در تقابل با کارهایی مثل مسخ و محاکمه و قصر که فضای پیچیده و تاریکی دارند. اما در این اثر با همهی دردسرهایی که برای شخصیت اول داستان پیش می آید میتوان روزنه امید و بهروزی را هم حس کرد... در صحنه هایی چنان هیجانی بود که ریتم "مرگ قسطی" سلین برام تداعی میشد مخمصه پشت مخمصه و نفس گیر حیف و هزار حسرت که کافکا این کتاب را هم به پایان نرساند...