Kafka Americana - Hardcover

Lethem, Jonathan; Scholz, Carter

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 189228443X ISBN 13: 9781892284433

Verlag: Subterranean, 1999

Inhaltsangabe

In an act of literary appropriation by turns witty, affectionate, and shameless, Jonathan Lethem and Carter Scholz seize a helpless Franz Kafka by the lapels and thrust him into the cultural wreckage of twentieth-century America. In the collaboratively written "Receding Horizon," Hollywood welcomes Kafka as a scriptwriter for Frank Capra's It's A Wonderful Life, with appropriately morbid results. Scholz's "The Amount to Carry" transports "the legal secretary of the Workman's Accident Insurance Institute" to a professional conference with fellow insurance executives Wallace Stevens and Charles Ives, for a night of musing on what can and can't be insured. And Lethem's "K for Fake" brings together Orson Welles, Jerry Lewis, and Rod Serling in a kangaroo trial where Kafka faces, needless to say, fraudulent charges. Taking Modernism's presiding genius for a literary joyride, the authors portray an absurd, ominous world that Kafka might have invented but could never have survived.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Subterranean
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1999
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 189228443X
• ISBN 13: 9781892284433
• Einband: Gebundene Ausgabe
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