America (Summarized Edition)

Amerika, Kafka's unfinished early novel, follows exiled youth Karl Rossmann through slapstick episodes in a reimagined United States. From the stoker's grievance to his uncle's patronage, then the degradations with Robinson, Delamarche, and Brunelda, Karl advances toward the mirage of the Nature Theatre of Oklahoma. Lucid, ironic prose animates a picaresque of bureaucratic snares and theatrical sp...