Amerika, of de verdwenen jongen

Franz Kafka (author), Willem van Toorn (translator)
Kafka is zelf nooit in Amerika geweest. Hij schiep uit beschrijvingen die hij las en visuele elementen die hem fascineerden een mythisch land waar New York en Boston door een brug met elkaar verbonden zijn, het Vrijheidsbeeld een zwaard ten hemel heft, en waar alles reusachtig is. Onafgebroken verkeersstromen vullen de talloze wegen en straten.
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Title
Amerika, of de verdwenen jongen
Author
Franz Kafka
Translator
Willem van Toorn 1935-
Uniform title
Der Verschollene
Language
Dutch
Original language
German
Original title
Amerika
Publisher
Amsterdam: Athenaeum-Polak & Van Gennep, 2017
1 digitaal bestand
ISBN
9789025301613

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About Franz Kafka

Franz Kafka (3 July 1883 – 3 June 1924) was a German-speaking Bohemian novelist and short-story writer based in Prague, who is widely regarded as one of the major figures of 20th-century literature. His work fuses elements of realism and the fantastic. It typically features isolated protagonists facing bizarre or surrealistic predicaments and incomprehensible socio-bureaucratic powers. It has been interpreted as exploring themes of alienation, existential anxiety, guilt, and absurdity. His best known works include the novella The Metamorphosis and novels The Trial and The Castle. The term Kafkaesque has entered English to describe absurd situations like those depicted in his writing.

Kafka was born into a middle-class German-speaking Czech Jewish family in Prague, the capital of the Kingdom of Bohemia, then part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire (today the capital of the Czech Republic). He trained as a lawyer, an…Read more on Wikipedia