The Man Who Disappeared

Literature

Author: Franz Kafka

Entering New York harbor, the young immigrant Karl Rossmann sees the Statue of Liberty, “her arm with the sword stretched upward.” This forbidding introduction sets the tone for Kafka’s narrative about an innocent European astray in an ultra-modern America that is both a fantasy and an object of social satire. Full of incident and blackly humorous, Kafka’s first novel port….Read More

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