•
1 2

Kafka Americana

Kafka Americana

Author: Lethem, Jonathan

Quality: NF - Near Fine

Condition Notes:

Genre: Fiction - Literature

Format: Trade Paperback

$0.00 USD
$0.00 USD
Sale Sold out
Shipping calculated at checkout.
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.
View full details

Used Book Classifications

Cheshire Books & Cat Café uses this guide to classify our books. All of our books will be of Good quality or higher, unless specifically noted in the description. The quality for each title can be found just under the Author field at the top of the listing.