by Franz Kafka · Fischer Taschenbuch Verlag GmbH · libro de bolsillo · ISBN 9783596201327
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«Amerika» is the novel by Franz Kafka published by Fischer Taschenbuch Verlag in paperback (262 pages, in German).
After a family scandal, Karl Rossmann, a young European, is sent to the United States. Kafka narrates his misfortunes in a country he cannot quite understand, in a tone ranging from comic to unsettling. The work, also titled «The Man Who Disappeared», speaks of alienation, identity and the difficulty of finding one's place in the world.
Posthumous and unfinished novel, published in 1927; since 1982 it has been published under the title Kafka intended, «The Man Who Disappeared». This edition is number 132 in the Fischer Taschenbücher collection.
For readers of literary classics and twentieth-century Central European fiction.
Franz Kafka was a German-language Jewish Czech writer and novelist born in Prague, in the Austro-Hungarian Empire. Widely regarded as a major figure of 20th-century literature, his works fuse elements of realism and the fantastique, and typically feature isolated protagonists facing bizarre or surreal predicaments and incomprehensible bureaucratic powers. The term Kafkaesque has entered the lexicon to describe situations like those depicted in his writings. His best-known works include the novella The Metamorphosis (1915) and the novels The Trial (1924) and The Castle (1926). He is also celebrated for his brief fables and aphorisms, which frequently incorporated comedic elements alongside the darker themes of his longer works. His work has widely influenced artists, philosophers, composers, filmmakers, literary historians, religious scholars, and cultural theorists.
