The Schocken Kafka Library: Amerika: The Missing Person : A New Translation, Based on the Restored Text (Paperback)

from jasonlf

The first chapter of this unpublished novel is the Kafka short story "The Stoker." The last chapter, a fragment sometimes titled The Theater of Oklahoma, is excellent. And some of the scenes in between are very good, although they add up to a certain amount of aimlessness, possibly because the no...

from nosajeel

The first chapter of this unpublished novel is the Kafka short story "The Stoker." The last chapter, a fragment sometimes titled The Theater of Oklahoma, is excellent. And some of the scenes in between are very good, although they add up to a certain amount of aimlessness, possibly because the no...

from Kristelh

I read an audio book narrated by George Guidall. He does a very good job of narrated the story. Franz Kafka's last book and this translated is truer to the original condition. Kafka had left instructions to burn all his work. Thank goodness that wasn't done. This is the story of an immigrant that...

from cataryna

A mediocre, mildly entertaining book in the style of and with similar strange adventures reminiscent of Don Quixote, sans the delusional knighthood. I found the main character, Karl, rather spineless and not very appealing. I kept waiting for him to surprise me and stand up for himself and everyt...

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The collapse of an earnest youth surrounded by a cast of despicable characters.