![]() ![]() ![]() Written under the spell of Dickens, it's more boisterous than you might expect, with slapstick fight scenes and key roles allotted to a drunk Irishman and a sly Frenchman, although the sense of what we're reading is predictably difficult to pin down. Karl's rich uncle Jakob meets him off the boat but he soon drifts into a netherworld of precarious employment and squalid lodgings when a misstep at a country get-together means he's sent packing once more. It's the story of an unlucky young Czech whose family throw him out with a one-way ticket to New York after he gets a maidservant pregnant. S et aside in 1912, never to be completed, The Man Who Disappeared (1927) was Kafka's first novel, originally published under the title Amerika, as opposed to the author's choice, Der Verschollene, used for this new translation by Ritchie Robertson. ![]()
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