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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 liked 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 the last completed chapter in 1914, but it 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 translation by Willa and Edwin Muir was published in Great Britain in 1932 and in the United States in 1946." "Over the last thirty years, an international team of Kafka scholars has been working on German-language critical editions of all of Kafka's writings, going back to the original manuscripts and notes, correcting transcription errors, and removing Brod's editorial and stylistic interventions to create texts that are as close as possible to the way the author left them." "With the same expert balance of precision and nuance that marked his award-winning translation of The Castle, Mark Harman now restores the humor and particularity of language in his translation of the critical edition of Der Verschollene. Here is the story of young Karl Rossmann, who, following an incident involving a housemaid, is banished by his parents to America. With unquenchable optimism and in the company of two comic-sinister companions, he throws himself into misadventure after misadventure, eventually heading toward Oklahoma, where a career in the theater beckons. Though we can never know how Kafka planned to end the novel, Harman's superb translation allows us to appreciate, as closely as possible, what Kafka did commit to the page."--Jacket.
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German fiction, Translations into English, Immigrants in fiction, Adaptations, Fiction, Social conditions, Young men, Classic Literature, Immigrants, Humorous stories, Austrian fiction, Continental european fiction (fictional works by one author), Romance Alemao, Germanic literature, Fiction, general, Translations into Chinese, Immigrants--united states--fiction, Pt2621.a26 a2313 2008, 833/.912People
Franz Kafka (1883-1924), Max Brod (1884-1968), Edwin Muir (1887-1959), Klaus Mann (1906-1949)Places
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Amerika -Self-Help and Psychology Humor(Illustriert)
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Der Verschollene: Originalfassung
Aug 01, 2017, FISCHER Taschenbuch
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Amerika: the missing person : a new translation, based on the restored text
2008, Schocken Books
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Amerika: The Man Who Disappeared (Penguin Modern Classics)
Jan 25, 2007, Penguin
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Amerika: The Man Who Disappeared
May 2004, New Directions Publishing Corporation
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2004, New Directions Books
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Amerika: The Man Who Disappeared: The New Translation by Michael Hofmann
October 2002, New Directions Publishing Corporation
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Der Verschollene: Roman in der Fassung fer Handschrift
2001, Fischer Taschenbuch
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El desaparecido, America/ The Man Who Disappeared, America
June 30, 2000, Ediciones Catedra S.A.
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Man Who Disappeared, the (Penguin Twentieth Century Classics)
May 1999, Penguin Books
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May 1999, Penguin Books
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Der Verschollene
February 1, 1997, Reclam
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Der Verschollene: Roman in der Fassung der Handschrift
1994, Fischer Taschenbuch, Fischer Taschenbuch Verlag
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Der Verschollene
December 1994, Fischer Taschenbuch Verlag
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Der Verschollene: Roman : in der Fassung der Handschrift
1993, Fischer
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Amerika
Oct 27, 1990, Schocken Books, Incorporated, Brand: Schocken Books
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1983, S. Fischer
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Der Verschollene. Kritische Ausgabe. Neuausgabe von ' Amerika'. Text- und Apparatband.
January 1, 1983, Fischer (S.), Frankfurt
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