![]() ![]() In Kafka, it is intrinsic to human existence.' This edition is illustrated by Bill Bragg and translated by Michael Hofmann. Their differences however, he says, are equally revealing: 'In Dickens, the source of cruelty is largely social and therefore amenable to correction. In his introduction, James Lasdun provides a fascinating exploration of two writers who shared 'an instinctive sympathy with the downtrodden an abiding interest in the effect of large, impersonal forces on small, vulnerable human beings'. ![]() ![]() Part social satire, part coming-of-age novel, Amerika is lighter in tone than the rest of Kafka's ?ction, and owes a debt to a writer he hugely admired: Charles Dickens. Kafka himself never visited America, and the novel contains many charming idiosyncrasies: San Francisco is situated on the east coast, and a bridge connects New York with Boston. A picaresque and idiosyncratic romp, it follows the adventures of Karl Rossmann, sent away from home after getting a maid pregnant, as he leaves Europe and travels across America. Amerika was the ?rst of Kafka's novels, but the last to be published. Bound in paper, printed with a design by Bill Bragg Set in Elysium. ![]()
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