Amerika
Subtitle: the missing person : a new translation, based on the restored text
By: Franz Kafka ; translated and with a preface by Mark Harman
Contributors: Harman, Mark
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Schocken Books
Published: 2008
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 299
ISBN-13: 9780805242645; 9781299100763
Subjects: Immigrants; Fiction; Literary; FICTION; General
Work titles: Amerika
Description: Franz Kafka's diaries and letters suggest that his fascination with America grew out of a desire to break away from his native Prague, even if only in his imagination. Kafka died before he could finish what he like to call his "American novel, : but he clearly entitled it -- The Castle, From the Hardcover edition
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 295-299).

Translated from the German.
Table of contents: title: Publisher's Note; title: Translator's note; title: The Stoker; title: The Uncle; title: A Country House Outside New York; title: The March to Ramses; title: At the Occidental Hotel; title: The Robinson Affair; title: The suburban street in which the automobile ...; title: "Get up! Up!" cried Robinson ...; title: Fragments; title: Brunelda's Departure; title: At a street corner Karl saw ...; title: They traveled for two days ...