by Franz Kafka · Alianza · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788420613444
VAT included
Hamelyn quality guarantee · checked and verified, or your money back
«América» is the novel by Franz Kafka published by Alianza in paperback (320 pages, in Spanish).
Karl Rossmann, a sixteen-year-old European youth, travels to New York after a love affair with a maid and in search of a better future. Between help and misadventures, he traverses the different social strata of the city, in a narrative that mixes the absurd and the bureaucratic and explores alienation and identity.
Posthumous work by Franz Kafka, originally published in 1927 under the title «Amerika. Der Verschollene».
For readers of classic fiction and literature students approaching Kafka.
Franz Kafka was a German-language Jewish Czech writer and novelist born in Prague, in the Austro-Hungarian Empire. Widely regarded as a major figure of 20th-century literature, his works fuse elements of realism and the fantastique, and typically feature isolated protagonists facing bizarre or surreal predicaments and incomprehensible bureaucratic powers. The term Kafkaesque has entered the lexicon to describe situations like those depicted in his writings. His best-known works include the novella The Metamorphosis (1915) and the novels The Trial (1924) and The Castle (1926). He is also celebrated for his brief fables and aphorisms, which frequently incorporated comedic elements alongside the darker themes of his longer works. His work has widely influenced artists, philosophers, composers, filmmakers, literary historians, religious scholars, and cultural theorists.
