Amerika (The Missing Person; The Man Who Disappeared) (Restored Text)

✍ Scribed by Kafka, Franz; Harman, Mark (translator)

• Book ID: 108081757
• Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
• Year: 2008
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 260 KB
• Category: Fiction
• ISBN-13: 9780805242645

✦ Synopsis

Franz Kafka's diaries and letters suggest that his fascination with America grew out of a desire to break away from his native Prague, even if only in his imagination. Kafka died before he could finish what he like to call his "American novel,: but he clearly entitled it Der Verschollene("The Missing Person") in a letter to his fiancee, Felice Bauer, in 1912. Kafka began writing the novel that fall and wrote until the last completed chapter in 1914, but in wasn't until 1927, three years after his death, that Amerika --the title that Kafka's friend and literary executor Max Brod gave his edited version of the unfinished manuscript--was published in Germany by Kurt Wolff Verlag. An English translation by Willa and Edwin Muir was published in Great Britain in 1932 and in the United States in 1946.

Over the last thirty years, an international team of Kafka scholars has been working on German-language critical editions of all of Kafka's writings, going back...