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Dietro la vicenda di Karl Rossmann – un sedicenne mandato dai genitori in America perché dimentichi la donna di bassa estrazione sociale che ha messo incinta – il romanzo nasconde i temi centrali della problematica kafkiana: la metamorfosi come distacco, la colpa senza colpa, l’esperienza frustrante dei rapporti interpersonali assoggettati all’arbitrio e alla prevaricazione dei potenti e sempre sfuggenti nelle loro ambigue motivazioni. Ma è l’assenza di angoscia e di solitudine che colpisce in America: il romanzo è come una parentesi tra le “allucinazioni” delle altre opere di Kafka, e lascia intravedere una sorta di utopia in cui ognuno potrà finalmente, attraverso un lavoro divenuto gioco, realizzare se stesso.
- ISBN: 8811132584
- Casa Editrice: Garzanti
- Pagine: 256
- Data di uscita: 10-03-2011
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This is a book that will remove our misconceptions that we can write a novel about an experience or a place only if we had a similar experience in the past. Kafka is a person who never visited America in his entire life. But he marvelously writes about the intricate details about America through
Often I opt to know as little as possible about the novels I read before starting them which includes not reading the back cover synopsis. So I didn’t know this was an unfinished novel when I started. I hadn’t read any Kafka since my teens when I can’t say he was ever a favourite of mine. My feeling Leggi tutto
Franz Kafka just watches, he doesn’t comment… As the seventeen-year-old Karl Rossmann, who had been sent to America by his unfortunate parents because a maid had seduced him and had a child by him, sailed slowly into New York harbour, he suddenly saw the Statue of Liberty, which had already been in v Leggi tutto
The incomplete first novel, like the other two by Franz Kafka which makes for a fuzzy story to follow let alone perceive, we are grateful, nevertheless. In as much as any gifted writer's book though fragmented is a priceless treasure ...Amerika...original name, "The Missing Person" a better more des Leggi tutto
Kafka 'Lite' 'Amerika' is not quite Kafka we all love and are used to. This is due to its realism, social commentary and humour. On the other hand, the account of young Karl Rossmann's odyssey in 'Amerika' (which somehow does not feel like America) generated a sense of growing unease in me like other Leggi tutto
The least Kafkaesque novel by Kafka—maybe that’s why it is more overlooked than his other works. Instead of the claustrophobic feel of helplessness, there is actually a sense of hope and comedic relief in the adventures of our hero, an innocent immigrant in 1920s America, as he pursues the american Leggi tutto
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