Book description
Karl Rossman has been banished by his parents to America, following a
family scandal. There, with unquenchable optimism, he throws himself
into the strange experiences that lie before him as he slowly makes
his way into the interior of the great continent.
Although Kafka's first novel (begun in 1911 and never finished), can
be read as a menacing allegory of modern life, it is also infused with
a quite un-Kafkaesque blitheness and sunniness, brought to life in
this lyrical translation that returns to the original manuscript of
the book.
Franz Kafka (1883-1924) was born of Jewish parents in Prague. Several
of his story collections were published in his lifetime and his novels,
The Trial, The Castle, and Amerika, were published posthumously by his
editor Max Brod.
