{"product_id":"amerika-the-man-who-disappeared-9780811215695","title":"Amerika: The Man Who Disappeared","description":"Michael Hofmann's startlingly visceral and immediate translation revives Kafka's great comedy, and captures a new Kafka, free from Prague and loose in the new world, a Kafka shot through with light in this highly charged and enormously nuanced translation. Kafka began the first of his three novels in 1911, but like the others, \u003cem\u003eAmerika\u003c\/em\u003e remained unfinished, and perhaps, as Klaus Mann suggested, \"necessarily endless.\" Karl Rossman, the youthful hero of the novel, \"a poor boy of seventeen,\" has been banished by his parents to America, following a scandal. There, with unquenchable optimism, he throws himself into adventure after misadventure, and experiences multiply as he makes his way into the heart of the country, to The Great Nature Theater of Oklahoma. In creating this new translation, Hofmann, as he explains in his introduction, returned to the manuscript version of the book, restoring matters of substance and detail. Fragments which have never before been presented in English are now reinstated including the book's original \"ending.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe San Francisco Chronicle\u003c\/em\u003e said Hofmann's \"sleek translation does a wonderful job\" and \u003cem\u003eThe New York Times\u003c\/em\u003e concurred: \"Anything by Kafka is worth reading again, especially in the hands of such a gifted translator as Hofmann.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Franz Kafka\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e New Directions Publishing Corporation\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 05\/17\/2004\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 216\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.50lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.01h x 5.22w x 0.66d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780811215695\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e 05\/30\/2004 pg. 16\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eKafka, Franz:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - \u003cstrong\u003eFranz Kafka\u003c\/strong\u003e (1883-1924) was one of the most important writers of the twentieth century. His major novels include \u003cem\u003eThe Trial\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eThe Castle\u003c\/em\u003e, and \u003cem\u003eAmerika\u003c\/em\u003e.\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eGregory, Horace:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - \u003cstrong\u003eHorace Gregory\u003c\/strong\u003e was born and grew up in Milwaukee. He was a poet, critic, essayist, translator and biographer, who taught at Sarah Lawrence College for 26 years. He was a member of the National Academy-Institute of Arts and Letters and received the Bollingen Prize for poetry in 1965.\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eHofmann, Michael:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - The award-winning translator \u003cstrong\u003eMichael Hofmann\u003c\/strong\u003e has also translated works by Jenny Erpenbeck, Gert Hofmann, Franz Kafka, Heinrich von Kleist, and Joseph Roth for New Directions. His translation of \u003cem\u003eKairos\u003c\/em\u003e by Jenny Erpenbeck was awarded the International Booker Prize in 2024.","brand":"booksdeli.com","offers":[{"title":"Franz Kafka \/ Paperback \/ English","offer_id":48840752726173,"sku":"9780811215695","price":16.74,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0619\/5648\/9373\/files\/img_0cfd4e7a-a61f-49b7-821e-ac2d2c9de4ab.jpg?v=1787725913","url":"https:\/\/booksdeli.com\/products\/amerika-the-man-who-disappeared-9780811215695","provider":"booksdeli.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}