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Kafka Americana is a 1999 collection of short stories by Jonathan Lethem and Carter Scholz based on the life (and alternate histories) and works of Franz Kafka. Originally published in a limited edition by Subterranean Press, it was released as a trade paperback by W. W. Norton & Company in 2001.
Sep 29, 2022 · 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 & Scholz seize a helpless Kafka by the lapels & thrust him into the cultural wreckage of twentieth-century America.
Jan 1, 2001 · Kafka Americana is a tribute to author Franz Kafka, a collection of Kafkaesque short stories by Jonathan Lethem and Carter Scholz. In most or all of these stories Kafka is himself one of the characters.
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Jan 1, 1999 · 4.0 6 ratings. See all formats and editions. In an act of literary appropriation by turns witty, affectionate, and shameless, Jonathan Lethem and Carter Scholz seize a helpless Franz Kafka by the lapels and thrust him into the cultural wreckage of twentieth-century America.
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Sep 17, 2001 · 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.
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'Inspired by affection.... Extremely witty and intelligent.'— Publishers Weekly , Kafka Americana, Fiction, Carter Scholz, Jonathan Lethem, 9780393322538
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 ...
