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Subject(s)

• Kafka, Franz 1883-1924—Translations into English [Browse]
• Immigrants—United States—Fiction [Browse]

Related name

• Robertson, Ritchie [Browse]

Series

• Oxford world's classics (Oxford University Press) [More in this series]
• Oxford world's classics

Summary note

Expelled by his family after seduction by a maidservant, Karl finds in America a series of surrogate families, but he continues to get into undeserved trouble and is forced to move on once again. Along the way Karl encounters extremes of wealth and poverty, experiences the cruelty of the American work ethic, and has glimpses of the criminal underworld, without losing the basic goodness and resourcefulness that enabled him to survive the hazards of the New World.

Notes

"A new translation by Ritchie Robertson"--Cover.

Bibliographic references

Includes bibliographical references (p. [xxxii]-xxxv).

Action note

Committed to retain in perpetuity — ReCAP Shared Collection (HUL)

Language note

Translated from the German.

Contents

• Biographical preface
• Introduction
• Note on the text
• Note on the translation
• Select bibliography
• A chronology of Franz Kafka
• The man who disappeared
• Explanatory notes.

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ISBN

• 0199601127 (pbk.)
• 9780199601127 (pbk.)

OCLC

790706377

RCP

H - S

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