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Franz Kafka: Amerika: The Man Who Disappeared.(Book review)

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From: The Germanic Review
Date: 20060101
Author:Reitter, Paul

Franz Kafka: Amerika: The Man Who Disappeared Trans. Michael Hofmann New York: New Directions, 2002. Pp. 218.

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Kafka's career auf Englisch began in 1930, with the publication of British and American editions of his final novel, The Castle. The book sold poorly, but its translators were undeterred. During the next eight years, Edwin and Willa Muir teamed up with various presses, including Knopf, to put out most of Kafka's corpus. The Great Wall of China, a collection of short writings, appeared in 1933. The Trial and Amerika followed--in 1937 and ...

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