Uniform Title
Amerika. English
Title
The man who disappeared : (America) / Franz Kafka ; translated with an introduction and notes by Ritchie Robertson.
Publication
Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2023.
Physical Description
1 online resource (xxxviii, 215 pages).
Local Notes
Access is available to the Yale community.
Notes
Translated from the German.
Previously issued in print: 2012.
Description based on print version record.
Access and use
Access restricted by licensing agreement.
Summary
Entering New York harbour, the young immigrant Karl Rossmann sees the Statue of Liberty. This forbidding introduction sets the tone for Kafka's narrative about an innocent European astray in an ultra-modern America that is both a fantasy and an object of social satire.
Variant and related titles
America
Oxford world's classics.
Other formats
Print version :
Added to Catalog
July 13, 2023
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references.
Genre/Form
Modern & contemporary fiction.