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A century after his birth he seems the last holy writer, and the supreme fabulist of modern
A century after his birth he seems the last holy writer, and the supreme fabulist of modern man's cosmic predicament. -- John Updike, The New Yorker
His writings are the beautiful and fantastic prolegomena to Buddhism which he never chose to formulate. --Aldous Huxley
His writings are the beautiful and fantastic prolegomena to Buddhism which he never chose to formulate. -- Aldous Huxley
Kafka never wrote a more accurate picture of Central Europe than in his novel Amerika.
Kafka never wrote a more accurate picture of Central Europe than in his novel Amerika. -- Eleanor Clark, The Griffin
This fantasy of a New World, so full of a childlike genius...this strange book—Amerika. --Thomas Mann
This fantasy of a New World, so full of a childlike genius...this strange book—Amerika. -- Thomas Mann --This text refers to the Hardcover edition.
内容简介
Karl Rossman has been banished by his parents to America, following a family scandal. There, with unquenchable optimism, he throws himself into the strange experiences that lie before him as he slowly makes his way into the interior of the great continent. Although Kafka’s first novel (begun in 1911 and never finished), can be read as a menacing allegory of modern life, it is also infused with a quite un-Kafkaesque blitheness and sunniness, brought to life in this lyrical translation that returns to the original manu* of the book.
作者简介
Franz Kafka (1883-1924) was born of Jewish parents in Prague. Several of his story collections were published in his lifetime and his novels, The Trial, The Castle, and Amerika, were published posthumously by his editor Max Brod.