Young immigrant Karl Rossmann has a series of adventures in a vision of an ultra-modern America that is both fantasy and social satire. Full of incident, and blackly humorous, Kafka's first novel is newly translated by Ritchie Robertson in an edition...
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Young immigrant Karl Rossmann has a series of adventures in a vision of an ultra-modern America that is both fantasy and social satire. Full of incident, and blackly humorous, Kafka's first novel is newly translated by Ritchie Robertson in an edition that includes a full introduction and notes. Cover -- Contents -- Biographical Preface -- Introduction -- Note on the Text -- Note on the Translation -- Select Bibliography -- A Chronology of Franz Kafka -- THE MAN WHO DISAPPEARED -- 1. The Stoker -- 2. Karl's Uncle -- 3. A Country House near New York -- 4. Walking to Ramses -- 5. In the Hotel Occidental -- 6. The Robinson Affair -- It must have been … -- 'Get up! Get up!' cried Robinson … -- FRAGMENTS -- (1) Brunelda's Departure -- (2) Karl saw at a street corner… -- They travelled for two days… -- Explanatory Notes.
