Download PDF Amerika The Missing Person A New Translation Based on the Restored Text The Schocken Kafka Library Franz Kafka Mark Harman Books

Product details Series The Schocken Kafka Library Paperback 336 pages Publisher Schocken; 1 edition (August 16, 2011) Language English ISBN-10 0805211616

Amerika The Missing Person A New Translation Based on the Restored Text The Schocken Kafka Library Franz Kafka Mark Harman Books Reviews

• beautiful book design on this, great work by peter mendelsund for this re-issue. not quite as enamored of mark harman’s particular translation, here, and prefer the muirs’ translation overall, but your mileage may vary. what is ideal is to have both to compare; between the two sources and their slight differences, you arrive at a better concept of the original phrasing and feel.
• The nascent Kafka arriving with the full power of his unique and timeless imagination. The work takes a while to hit full stride however.
• Great
• That Franz Kafka is one of the great modern writers is a general truth. He was a perfectionist and left instructions that all his works be destroyed after his death, but people who understood his talent couldn't let that happen. "Amerika" was a manuscript left unfinished, but in 1927 his friend Max Brod published what he thought was a representation. In the years after there were various attempts to rework the manuscript, and now we have a new translation.
  
  Kafka had not visited America, but there was so much information about America in Germany that he set out to compose his "American Novel." It is the story of a young man who is disowned by his family in Prague for an indescretion and forced to immigrate to America. Right away one knows that the novel is going to be unusual because the Statue of Liberty greets the young man with a sword rather than a torch.
  
  Without going into all the social and political background, the story itself is spellbinding. There are turns in the plot that couldn't be imagined, and the darkness that Kafka weaves is chilling. From the mind of a master, this is a journey that is hard to forget.
• Awesome!!!!!!!
• great
• Not my favorite from Kafka, that would be "The Metamorphosis". Shame that, like The Castle, it just ends, it would have been interesting to see the conclusion Kafka had in store for our main character. In my opinion this is Kafka's darkest, most depressing work; I almost did not want to read anymore. However if you want your reading of Kafka's work to be complete you might as well soldier through it.
• I enjoy his descriptions of space and sound. The book captures the alienation of living in America in a poignant manner.