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Franz Kafka Amerika (Paperback). 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. Further DetailsTitle: Amerika Condition: New Subtitle: The Man Who Disappeared Author: Franz Kafka Translator: Michael Hofmann Contributor: Michael Hofmann (Translated by), Horace Gregory (Afterword by) Format: Paperback ISBN-10: 0811215695 EAN: 9780811215695 ISBN: 9780811215695 Edition: New Restored Text Translation Publisher: New Directions Publishing Corporation Genre: Fiction Release Date: 05/17/2004 Description: 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."The San Francisco Chronicle said Hofmann’s “sleek translation does a wonderful job” and The New York Times concurred: “Anything by Kafka is worth reading again, especially in the hands of such a gifted translator as Hofmann.” Language: German, English Country/Region of Manufacture: US Item Height: 203mm Item Length: 132mm Item Width: 18mm Item Weight: 225g Type: World Literature Release Year: 2004 Missing Information?Please contact us if any details are missing and where possible we will add the information to our listing.
