Amerika
by Franz Kafka
Taste attributes: dramacomedyfresh & originalunsavouryemotive & stirringfish out of water/culture clashsocial commentaryhuman spirit/resilience/survival
Boxlist takeStirring and inventive: a novel that is balanced on everything else. Best if you like surprises over comfort.
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Pace: balanced · Originality: fresh · Tone: balanced · Weight: balanced · Realism: balanced · Story: balanced · Structure: balanced · Look: balanced · Scale: balanced · Emotional punch: stirringHow we score
Open Library rating
4.0 / 5
16 ratings
About This Book
"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 liked 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.
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- Author
- Franz Kafka
- Published
- 1927
- Pages
- 299
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- Open Library
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