by Franz Kafka · DEBOLSILLO · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788497932745
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«El desaparecido» is the first of Franz Kafka's three unfinished novels, published by Debolsillo in paperback (296 pages, in Spanish).
Karl Rossman, expelled from his family, arrives in New York and faces a hostile and bewildering world. The novel, a peculiar coming-of-age story influenced by Dickens, explores identity, alienation, and the search for belonging of a protagonist who feels disappeared. Kafka considered it a hopeful and luminous work.
The novel was published posthumously under the title «América», although Kafka wanted to call it «El desaparecido»; it belongs to the Contemporánea collection and includes the translation by Miguel Sáenz.
For readers of classic fiction and European literature, and for those who want to discover Kafka's longer narrative.
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.
