by Franz Kafka
VISUAL ARTS AND ILLUSTRATION
Kippenberger, Martin. “The Happy Ending of Franz Kafka’s Amerika.” Installation. Hamburg, Germany, 1999.
Mairowitz, David Zane, and Robert Crumb. Introducing Kafka. Cambridge, Mass., 1993.
FILM
Class Relations. Film based on The Missing Person. Directed by Dani èlle Huillet and Jean-Marie Straub. France/Germany, 1984.
Intervista. Directed by Federico Fellini. Italy, 1987.
THEATER
Amerika, or The Disappearance. Adapted and directed by Gideon Lester. Boston, 2005.
Amerika. Adapted by Ip Wischin and directed by Tino Geirun. Vienna, Austria, and Washington, D.C., 2004.
Amerika. Adapted and directed by Osamu Matsumoto. Tokyo, 2001.
ALSO BY FRANZ KAFKA
PUBLISHED BY SCHOCKEN BOOKS
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This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents either are the product of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, events, or locales is entirely coincidental.
Preface and translation copyright 2008 © by Mark Harman
Publisher’s note copyright 2008 © by Schocken Books, a division of Random House, Inc.
All rights reserved. Published in the United States by Schocken Books, a division of Random House, Inc., New York, and in Canada by Random House of Canada Limited, Toronto.
Schocken Books and colophon are registered trademarks of Random House, Inc.
This translation is based on the German language text Der Verschollene: Kritische Ausgabe, edited by Jost Schillemeit, published by S. Fischer Verlag, Frankfurt am Main, in 1983. Copyright 1983 © by Schocken Books, a division of Random House, Inc. Amerika was originally published in German in different form by Kurt Wolff Verlag A.G., Munich, in 1927.
Portions have previously appeared in
Gettysburg Review and New England Review.
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Kafka, Franz, 1883–1924.
[Amerika. English]
Amerika : the missing person : a new translation, based on the restored text / Franz Kafka ; translated and with a preface by Mark Harman.
p. cm.
Includes bibliographical references.
eISBN: 978-0-805-24264-5
I. Harman, Mark. II. Title.
PT2621.A26A2313 2008 833’.912—dc22 2008013393
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