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Amerika by Franz Kafka (1996, Trade Paperback)
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Product Identifiers
PublisherKnopf Doubleday Publishing Group
ISBN-100805210644
ISBN-139780805210644
eBay Product ID (ePID)286445
Product Key Features
Original LanguageGerman
Book TitleAmerika
Number of Pages336 Pages
LanguageEnglish
Publication Year1996
TopicLiterary
IllustratorYes
FeaturesReprint
GenreFiction
AuthorFranz Kafka
FormatTrade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height0.7 in
Item Weight12 Oz
Item Length8 in
Item Width5.1 in
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceTrade
LCCN96-203957
Preface byMann, Klaus
Dewey Edition22
Afterword byBrod, Max
Dewey Decimal833/.912
Table Of Content1. Introduction: Old Patterns, New Trends, Fragile Experiments Nancy Tatom Ammerman and Wade Clark Roof; Part I: Assessing the Trends: 2. Lost in the Fifties: The Changing Family and the Nostalgic Church Penny Long Marler; 3. Boomers and the Culture of Choice: Changing Patterns of Work, Family, and Religion Wade Clark Roof and Lyn Gesch; 4. Work, Family, and Faith: Recent Trends Bradley R. Hertel; 5. Responses to Changing Lifestyles: "Feminists" and "Traditionalists" in Mainstream Religion Lyn Gesch; 6. Entering the Labor Force: Ideals and Realities among Evangelical Women Charles Hall; Part II: Exploring New Patterns: 7. Religion and Family Ethics: A New Strategy for the Church Don S. Browning; 8. The Storm and the Light: Church, Family, Work, and Social Crisis in the African-American Experience Cheryl Townsend Gilkes; 9. Nurturing and Equipping Children in the "Public Church" Joseph T. Reiff; 10. Defense Workers: A Challenge to Family and Faith Mary Johnson, SND; 11. Small Faith Communities in the Roman Catholic Church: New Approaches to Religion, Work, and Family William V. D'Antonio; 12. Religious Innovation in the Mainline Church: House Churches, Home Cells, and Small Groups Stuart A. Wright; 13. Constructing Women's Rituals: Roman Catholic Women and 'Limina' Mary Jo Neitz; 14. Couples at Work: A Study of Patterns of Work, Family, and Faith William Johnson Everett with Sylvia Johnson Everett.
Edition DescriptionReprint
SynopsisTranslated by Willa and Edwin MuirForeword by E. L. DoctorowAfterword by Max Brod Kafka s first and funniest novel, "Amerika" tells the story of the young immigrant Karl Rossmann who, after an embarrassing sexual misadventure, finds himself packed off to America by his parents. Expected to redeem himself in this magical land of opportunity, young Karl is swept up instead in a whirlwind of dizzying reversals, strange escapades, and picaresque adventures. Although Kafka never visited America, images of its vast landscape, dangers, and opportunities inspired this saga of the golden land. Here is a startlingly modern, fantastic and visionary tale of America as a place no one has yet seen, in a historical period that can t be identified, writes E. L. Doctorow in his new foreword. Kafka made his novel from his own mind s mythic elements, Doctorow explains, and the research data that caught his eye were bent like rays in a field of gravity. ", Translated by Willa and Edwin Muir Foreword by E. L. Doctorow Afterword by Max Brod Kafka's first and funniest novel, Amerika tells the story of the young immigrant Karl Rossmann who, after an embarrassing sexual misadventure, finds himself "packed off to America" by his parents. Expected to redeem himself in this magical land of opportunity, young Karl is swept up instead in a whirlwind of dizzying reversals, strange escapades, and picaresque adventures. Although Kafka never visited America, images of its vast landscape, dangers, and opportunities inspired this saga of the "golden land." Here is a startlingly modern, fantastic and visionary tale of America "as a place no one has yet seen, in a historical period that can't be identified," writes E. L. Doctorow in his new foreword. "Kafka made his novel from his own mind's mythic elements," Doctorow explains, "and the research data that caught his eye were bent like rays in a field of gravity."
LC Classification NumberPT2621.A26A2313 1996
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