Amerika Franz Kafka
L’ Amerique Franz Kafka (America) – In the French language.
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1st French edition. Paris, Gallimard, 1946.
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Pp: 339 + /4/ Size: 18,5 x 12 cm.
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An unfinished novel by Franz Kafka (1883-1924) written between 1911 and 1914, America (or Missing) reports on a tragicomic tone, the tribulations of Karl Rossmann, a young Praguer exiled to America by his parents because he, despite himself, knocked up good.
Left to itself, without resources, naive and full of goodwill, the teenager trying somehow to carve a place in this incomprehensible world, sometimes friendly, often hostile, to be alternately operated by unscrupulous individuals or unjustly accused of all evils. Just like the Statue of Liberty waving the sword rather than the torch, America proposed here seems a little staggered, but at the same time strangely real. The novel is translated from German by Alexandre Vialatte.
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Binding: Original paperback binding with dust jacket. Dust jacket torn on spine cover (11, 5 cm), slightly damaged spine extremes, bumped edges.
Condition: Uncut, small signs of use, visible on scans, numbered copy 637.
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