America - Couverture souple

Kafka, Franz

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0749399511 ISBN 13 : 9780749399511

Editeur : Vintage, 1992

Synopsis

The story of Karl Rossman who, after an embarrassing sexual misadventure with a servant girl, is banished to America by his parents. Expected to redeem himself in the magical land of opportunity, he instead gets swept up in a whirlwind of strange escapades and dizzying adventures.

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À propos des auteurs

Franz Kafka (1883–1924) was born into a Jewish family in Prague. In 1906 he received a doctorate in jurisprudence, and for many years he worked a tedious job as a civil service lawyer investigating claims at the State Worker's Accident Insurance Institute. He never married, and published only a few slim volumes of stories during his lifetime. Meditation, a collection of sketches, appeared in 1912; The Stoker: A Fragment in 1913; Metamorphosis in 1915; The Judgement in 1916; In the Penal Colony in 1919; and A Country Doctor in 1920. The great novels were not published until after his death from tuberculosis: America, The Trial and The Castle.

Michael Hofmann is a German-born poet who writes in English. He has translated the works of Bertolt Brecht, Franza Kafka, Hans Fallada, and Joseph Roth, and teaches at the University of Florida in Gainesville.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Vintage
• Date d'édition: 1992
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0749399511
• ISBN 13: 9780749399511
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 256
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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