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Kafka is in ecstasy, writes wbole nights through.
A novel, set in America.
Max Brpd in his diary, September 29, 1912
Amerika is Kafka's comic masterpiece. In this entertaining növel he
tellá the story of Kari Rossman, "a poor boy of sixteen who had been
packed off to America by his parents because a servant girl had
sedüced hiríi and got hérself a child by .him." In the land of oppor-
tuni^y Kari is expected to redeem his past, «but soon encounters a
seljis of dizzy reversals and strange adventures. He falls into the
cliftfch
es of an improbable assortment of native rogues. Still, the
berAgn influence of a magicai America finally reasserts itself in a
bizgrre "Nature Theatre of Oklahoma-
Amerika was written in a period of féverish creativity during
which Kafka accompjished much of his finest writing. In the same
moipth that he started the növel, he alsó wrote, in a'ainglé sitting, his
amözing story The Judgmént; by November he had completed a draft
of the...
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Fülszöveg
Kafka is in ecstasy, writes wbole nights through.
A novel, set in America.
Max Brpd in his diary, September 29, 1912
Amerika is Kafka's comic masterpiece. In this entertaining növel he
tellá the story of Kari Rossman, "a poor boy of sixteen who had been
packed off to America by his parents because a servant girl had
sedüced hiríi and got hérself a child by .him." In the land of oppor-
tuni^y Kari is expected to redeem his past, «but soon encounters a
seljis of dizzy reversals and strange adventures. He falls into the
cliftfch
es of an improbable assortment of native rogues. Still, the
berAgn influence of a magicai America finally reasserts itself in a
bizgrre "Nature Theatre of Oklahoma-
Amerika was written in a period of féverish creativity during
which Kafka accompjished much of his finest writing. In the same
moipth that he started the növel, he alsó wrote, in a'ainglé sitting, his
amözing story The Judgmént; by November he had completed a draft
of the Metamorphosi$. Ip Amerika he took obvious delight in the ques-
tiön: What might it feel like to step sudderíly off the boát into the
wonderlarld that is the United States? tt .
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