Kafka Americana: Fiction

by Jonathan Lethem and Carter Scholz

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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...Read more
  • ISBN10 039332253X
  • ISBN13 9780393322538
  • Publish Date 6 September 2001 (first published 31 December 1998)
  • Publish Status Active
  • Out of Print 9 March 2021
  • Publish Country US
  • Imprint WW Norton & Co
  • Format Paperback
  • Pages 108
  • Language English