Amerika; the Missing Person: A New Translation Based on the Restored Text

Kafka, Franz; Mark Harman (Trans)

ISBN 10: 0805242112 / ISBN 13: 9780805242119

Published by Schocken Books, New York, 2008

About this Item

Large 8vo 9" - 10" tall; 336 pages; 2008 Schocken Books. HC/DJ 1st printing of the new translation by Harmon based on the restored Kfka text. Snugly bound and clean with no marks. Dust jacket uniformly bright with publisher's $25 issue price intact to unclipped front flap. Feel of a careful priorreading; superficial shelf evidence to jacket extremities. VG++/VG++ or better.

Seller Inventory # 56374

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Amerika; the Missing Person: A New Translation Based on the Restored Text
• Publisher: Schocken Books, New York
• Publication Date: 2008
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0805242112
• ISBN 13: 9780805242119
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: First Edition Thus; First Printing.
• Condition: Very Good+
• Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good+
• Seller catalogs:
  • Literature
  • Fiction, General
  • Modern 1st editions

About this title

Synopsis

A new translation of the author's unfinished novel chronicles the series of misadventures experienced by seventeen-year-old Karl Rossman, banished to America after a scandal involving a housemaid, looking at the New World from a variety of perspectives as he pursues a career in the theater. 15,000 first printing.

About the Author

Franz Kafka was born in Prague in 1883 and died of tuberculosis in a sanatorium near Vienna in 1924. He worked most of his adult life at the Worker Accident Insurance Company for the Kingdom of Bohemia in Prague. Only a few of his writings were published during his lifetime; most appeared posthumously.

Mark Harman, a native of Dublin who has written extensively about modern German and Irish literature, is a professor of German and English at Elizabeth College in Elizabeth, Pennsylvania. His translation of The Castle received the Modern Language Association's first Lois Roth Award in 1998.