Amerika (German Edition) - Softcover

Kafka, Franz

Softcover

ISBN 10: 3959092008 ISBN 13: 9783959092005

Publisher: Europäischer Literaturverlag, 2017

Synopsis

Wie die beiden späteren Romane »Der Prozess« und »Das Schloss« blieb auch Kafkas erster Roman »Amerika« unvollendet. Erklärtermaßen von Dickens »Oliver Twist« und »David Copperfield« inspiriert entstand der Roman zwischen 1911 und 1914; zu Lebzeiten Kafkas erschien jedoch nur das Eingangskapitel »Der Heizer«, der gesamte Text wurde erst 1927 veröffentlicht. Erzählt wird die Geschichte des 17-jährigen Karl Roßmann, der von seinen Eltern nach Amerika geschickt wird, nachdem er ein Dienstmädchen geschwängert hat. Zunächst von einem reichen Onkel aufgenommen, dann aber verstoßen, schlägt sich Roßmann als Liftboy und schließlich Diener durch. Neben dem eigentlichen Text enthält der Band noch zwei Fragmente, die Roßmanns Begegnung mit der Sängerin Brunelda und seinen Aufbruch zu dem phantastisch anmutenden Naturtheater von Oklahoma schildern.

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About the Author

Franz Kafka was born to Jewish parents in Bohemia in 1883. Kafka s father was a luxury goods retailer who worked long hours and as a result never became close with his son. Kafka s relationship with his father greatly influenced his later writing and directly informed his Brief an den Vater (Letter to His Father). Kafka had a thorough education and was fluent in both German and Czech. As a young man, he was hired to work at an insurance company where he was quickly promoted despite his desire to devote his time to writing rather than insurance. Over the course of his life, Kafka wrote a great number of stories, letters, and essays, but burned the majority of his work before his death and requested that his friend Max Brod burn the rest. Brod, however, did not fulfill this request and published many of the works in the years following Kafka s death of tuberculosis in 1924. Thus, most of Kafka s works were published posthumously, and he did not live to see them recognized as some of the most important examples of literature of the twentieth century. Kafka s works are considered among the most significant pieces of existentialist writing, and he is remembered for his poignant depictions of internal conflicts with alienation and oppression. Some of Kafka s most famous works include The Metamorphosis, The Trial and The Castle.

Edition details

• Publisher: Europäischer Literaturverlag
• Publication date: 2017
• Language: German
• ISBN 10: 3959092008
• ISBN 13: 9783959092005
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 252