America

Franz Kafka

earliest edition we have, 1992 VINTAGE (RAND), 1992 paperback 256 pages

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 bl...

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America paperback · 1996 · Akal Ediciones · 9788473396851
America paperback · 1993 · Losada · 9789500303170
America paperback · 1992 · VINTAGE (RAND) · 256 pages · 9780749399511

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