by Franz Kafka · Alianza Editorial · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788420683515
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Published in 1927 by Max Brod as a posthumous work with the title "America", Franz Kafka wrote the chapters destined for "The Missing", his «American novel», between the autumn of 1912 and January of the following year. The story follows the adventures of Karl Rossmann, a sixteen-year-old who embarks to the New Continent in search of fortune. Despite being unfinished, this work is considered one of the masterful pieces of the great Prague writer.
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.
