Banished to America by his parents in the wake of a family scandal, young Karl Rossmann faces the vast, strange continent with an optimism that never quite extinguishes itself. His journey slowly into the interior of that great land is rendered here in a lyrical translation drawn directly from the original manuscript. Kafka’s first novel — begun in 1911 and left unfinished — carries a blitheness and sunniness rarely associated with its author, even as it functions as a menacing allegory of modern life, making it unlike anything else in his body of work.
ISBN 13: 9780241372586
Author: Franz Kafka
