by Franz Kafka · Genérico · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788472916760
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«América» is an unfinished novel by Franz Kafka, published by Sarpe in paperback (221 pages, in Spanish).
Karl Rossmann, a sixteen-year-old European youth, is sent by his parents to the United States after a family scandal. During the voyage he befriends the ship's stoker, and in New York he is drawn into a world of encounters and misadventures in search of fortune. The work remained unfinished and was published posthumously in 1927.
1984 Sarpe edition, part of the Novelas inmortales collection; the work, originally titled Der Verschollene, is also known as The Man Who Disappeared.
For readers interested in literary classics and Kafka's narrative.
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.
