Amerika: The Missing Person : A New Translation, Based on the Restored Text - Hardcover

Kafka, Franz

 
9780805242119: Amerika: The Missing Person : A New Translation, Based on the Restored Text

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A new translation of the author's unfinished novel chronicles the series of misadventures experienced by seventeen-year-old Karl Rossman, banished to America after a scandal involving a housemaid, looking at the New World from a variety of perspectives as he pursues a career in the theater. 15,000 first printing.

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Franz Kafka was born in Prague in 1883 and died of tuberculosis in a sanatorium near Vienna in 1924. He worked most of his adult life at the Worker Accident Insurance Company for the Kingdom of Bohemia in Prague. Only a few of his writings were published during his lifetime; most appeared posthumously.

Mark Harman, a native of Dublin who has written extensively about modern German and Irish literature, is a professor of German and English at Elizabeth College in Elizabeth, Pennsylvania. His translation of The Castle received the Modern Language Association's first Lois Roth Award in 1998.

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ISBN 10:  0805211616 ISBN 13:  9780805211610
Verlag: Schocken, 2011
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