Amerika: Roman - Hardcover

Kafka, Franz

 
9783843075411: Amerika: Roman

Synopsis

Der 17-jährige Karl Roßmann wird von seinen Eltern in die USA geschickt, da er von einem Dienstmädchen „verführt“ wurde und dieses nun ein Kind von ihm bekommen hat. Im Hafen von New York angekommen, trifft er noch auf dem Schiff einen reichen Onkel, der ihn zu sich nimmt und von dessen Reichtum Karl nun lebt. Doch bald verstößt der Onkel den Jungen, als Karl die Einladung eines Geschäftsfreundes des Onkels zu einem Landhausbesuch eigenmächtig annimmt. Der ohne Aussprache vom Onkel auf die Straße gesetzte Karl lernt zwei Landstreicher kennen, einen Franzosen und einen Iren, die sich seiner annehmen, freilich immer zum Nachteil von Karl. Wegen des Iren verliert er eine Anstellung als Liftjunge in einem riesigen Hotel mit bedrückenden Arbeitsbedingungen. Anschließend wird er in einer Wohnung, die die beiden Landstreicher mit der fetten älteren Sängerin Brunelda teilen, gegen seinen Willen als Diener angestellt und ausgenutzt.

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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.

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