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

Name: Amerika: the Missing Person A New Translation, Based on the Restored Text
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ISBN: 9780805211610

ISBN-10: 0805211616

ISBN-13: 9780805211610

Edition: 2008

Authors: Franz Kafka, Mark Harman

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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 Der Verschollene ("The Missing Person") in a letter to his fiancee, Felice Bauer, in 1912. Kafka began writing the novel that fall and wrote until the last completed chapter in 1914, but in wasn't until 1927, three years after his death, that Amerika--the title that Kafka's friend and literary executor Max Brod gave his edited version of the unfinished manuscript--was published in Germany by Kurt Wolff Verlag. An English…

Book details

List price: $17.00
Copyright year: 2008
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Publication date: 8/16/2011
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 336
Size: 5.16" wide x 7.94" long x 0.72" tall
Weight: 0.682
Language: English