Franz Kafka
Paperback | Pages: 336 pages Rating: 3.75 | 21973 Users | 881 Reviews
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| Original Title: | Amerika |
| ISBN: | 0805210644 (ISBN13: 9780805210644) |
| Edition Language: | English |
| Characters: | Karl Rossmann, Robinson, Delamarche, Brunelda |
Description To Books Amerika
Kafka's first and funniest novel, Amerika tells the story of the young immigrant Karl Rossmann who, after an embarrassing sexual misadventure, finds himself "packed off to America" by his parents. Expected to redeem himself in this magical land of opportunity, young Karl is swept up instead in a whirlwind of dizzying reversals, strange escapades, and picaresque adventures.Although Kafka never visited America, images of its vast landscape, dangers, and opportunities inspired this saga of the "golden land." Here is a startlingly modern, fantastic and visionary tale of America "as a place no one has yet seen, in a historical period that can't be identified," writes E. L. Doctorow in his new foreword. "Kafka made his novel from his own mind's mythic elements," Doctorow explains, "and the research data that caught his eye were bent like rays in a field of gravity."
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| Title | : | Amerika |
| Author | : | Franz Kafka |
| Book Format | : | Paperback |
| Book Edition | : | Anniversary Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 336 pages |
| Published | : | July 2nd 1996 by Schocken (first published 1927) |
| Categories | : | Fiction. Classics. Literature. European Literature. German Literature. Novels |
Rating About Books Amerika
Ratings: 3.75 From 21973 Users | 881 ReviewsColumn About Books Amerika
کاش این کتاب ناتمام نمیموند....شخصیت کارل بشدت دوست داشتنی بود...حیف که نشد بفهمیم سرانجامش چی شد...اخرین کتاب پائیز 97Der Verschollene ist die Geschichte eines steten Versagens. Von der eigenen Familie ins Land der unbegrenzten Möglichkeiten verbannt, weil er ein Dienstmädchen geschwängert hat, sucht der 16-jährige Karl Roßmann einen Platz an dem er sich endlich bewähren kann. Doch seine redlichen Bemühungen scheitern am Ende alle am Einfluss unklarer Kräfte, denen er nichts entgegenzusetzen weiß. Eine Abwärtsbewegung aus Erwartungen, Verfehlungen und Strafe setzt sich in immer neuen Varianten fort. Kafka zeigt
Franz Kafka just watches, he doesnt commentAs the seventeen-year-old Karl Rossmann, who had been sent to America by his unfortunate parents because a maid had seduced him and had a child by him, sailed slowly into New York harbour, he suddenly saw the Statue of Liberty, which had already been in view for some time, as though in an intenser sunlight. The sword in her hand seemed only just to have been raised aloft, and the unchained winds blew about her form.And Karl Rossmann encounters many a
Wonderful! My "first" Kafka....
Often I opt to know as little as possible about the novels I read before starting them which includes not reading the back cover synopsis. So I didnt know this was an unfinished novel when I started. I hadnt read any Kafka since my teens when I cant say he was ever a favourite of mine. My feeling about him was further sullied after reading his letters to Milena, a girl he neurotically and rather cruelly strung along who eventually was to die in the Nazi death camps. Those letters are fascinating
This was originally titled The Man Who Disappeared. The first chapter, The Stoker, was published as a short story and often included in the collection The Metamorphosis (see my review HERE) . It opens with a description of a city, country and continent Kafka never saw: "New York looked at Karl with the hundred thousand windows of its skyscrapers." The ship, too, has windows (of course), but there are more references to them than one might expect in such a few pages. Karl is only 16 and has been
چیزی که شاید دربارهی این رمان میتواند عجیب باشد این است که کافکا هیچوقت به "آمریکا" نرفته بود و تنها سفرنامهها و روزنامهها منبع الهام او بودهاند. با این حال تصویری که او از آمریکا میسازد با گذشت حدود صد سال از نوشتن این رمان به تصویری که ما امروز از آمریکا داریم بسیار نزدیک و باورپذیر است. چیزی مثل تصویری که در روزمره از تهران امروز روایت میشود: شلوغ پر سروصدا هرج و مرج شکاف طبقاتی شدید دود هر کی به فکر خودش و رها شدگی و از این حرفها.حالا بماند که این هراس از مدرنیته و غربی شدن - غربی شدن به
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