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Kafka Americana

Kafka Americana

Lethem, Jonathan
Scholz, Carter

Paperback

Series: Norton Paperback

General Fiction

ISBN10: 039332253X
ISBN13: 9780393322538
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Published: Sep 1 2001
Pages: 108
Weight: 0.30
Height: 0.28 Width: 5.74 Depth: 8.24
Language: English
Previously published only in a signed, limited edition, Kafka Americana has achieved cult status. Norton now brings this reimagination of our labyrinthine world to a wider audience. In an act of literary appropriation, Lethem and Scholz seize a helpless Kafka by the lapels and thrust him into the cultural wreckage of twentieth-century America. In the collaboratively written Receding Horizon, Hollywood welcomes Kafka as scriptwriter for Frank Capra's It's a Wonderful Life, with appropriately morbid results. Scholz's The Amount to Carry transports the legal secretary of the Workman's Accident Insurance Institute to a conference with fellow insurance executives Wallace Stevens and Charles Ives, to muse on what can and can't be insured. And Lethem's K for Fake brings together Orson Welles, Jerry Lewis, and Rod Serling in a kangaroo trial in which Kafka faces fraudulent charges. Taking modernism's presiding genius for a joyride, the authors portray an absurd, ominous world that Kafka might have invented but could never have survived.

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