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Newly restored to the original text: Franz Kafka's Amerika: The Man Who Disappeared at last has the translator it deserves. Michael Hofmann's startlingly visceral and immediate translation revives Kafka's great comedy, and captures a new Kafka, free from Prague and loose in the new world, a Kafka shot through with light in this highly charged and enormously nuanced translation. Kafka began the first of his three novels in 1911, but like the others, Amerika remained unfinished, and perhaps, as Klaus Mann suggested, "necessarily endless." Karl Rossman, the youthful hero of the novel, "a poor boy of seventeen," has been banished by his parents to America, following a scandal. There, with unquenchable optimism, he throws himself into adventure after misadventure, and experiences multiply as he makes his way into the heart of the country, to The Great Nature Theater of Oklahoma. In creating this new translation, Hofmann, as he explains in his introduction, returned to the manuscript version of the book, restoring matters of substance and detail. Fragments which have never before been presented in English are now reinstated including the book's original "ending."

Depicts the tragicomic misadventures of a young immigrant in New York

Newly restored to the original text: Franz Kafka's Amerika: The Man Who Disappeared at last has the translator it deserves. Michael Hofmann's startlingly visceral and immediate translation revives Kafka's great comedy, and captures a new Kafka, free from Prague and loose in the new world, a Kafka shot through with light in this highly charged and enormously nuanced translation. Kafka began the first of his three novels in 1911, but like the others, Amerika remained unfinished, and perhaps, as Klaus Mann suggested, "necessarily endless." Karl Rossman, the youthful hero of the novel, "a poor boy of seventeen," has been banished by his parents to America, following a scandal. There, with unquenchable optimism, he throws himself into adventure after misadventure, and experiences multiply as he makes his way into the heart of the country, to The Great Nature Theater of Oklahoma. In creating this new translation, Hofmann, as he explains in his introduction, returned to the manuscript version of the book, restoring matters of substance and detail. Fragments which have never before been presented in English are now reinstated including the book's original "ending."

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After Russia takes control of the United States, handfuls of American patriots try to force the Soviets out and restore freedom

Franz Kafka's diaries and letters suggest that his fascination with America grew out of a desire to break away from his native Prague, even if only in his imagination. Kafka died before he could finish what he like to call his "American novel,: but he clearly entitled it Der Verschollene ("The Missing Person") in a letter to his fiancee, Felice Bauer, in 1912. Kafka began writing the novel that fall and wrote until the last completed chapter in 1914, but in wasn't until 1927, three years after his death, that Amerika--the title that Kafka's friend and literary executor Max Brod gave his edited version of the unfinished manuscript--was published in Germany by Kurt Wolff Verlag. An English translation by Willa and Edwin Muir was published in Great Britain in 1932 and in the United States in 1946.Over the last thirty years, an international team of Kafka scholars has been working on German-language critical editions of all of Kafka's writings, going back to the original manuscripts and notes, correcting transcription errors, and removing Brod's editorial and stylistic interventions to create texts that are as close as possible to the way the author left them.With the same expert balance of precision and nuance that marked his award-winning translation of The Castle, Mark Harman now restores the humor ad particularity of language in his translation of the critical edition of Der Verschollene. Here is the story of young Karl Rossman, who, following an incident involving a housemaid, is banished by his parents to America. With unquenchable optimism and in the company of two comic-sinister companions, he throws himself into misadventure, eventually heading towards Oklahoma, where a career in the theater beckons. Though we can never know how Kafka planned to end the novel, Harman's superb translation allows us to appreciate, as closely as possible, what Kafka did commit to the page.

Rammstein Live In Amerika, pairing the incendiary Madison Square Garden concert, expertly filmed and recorded in 5.1 surround, with a feature-length documentary film directed by Hannes Rossacher. A 20-minute film about the making of Rammstein's sixth album, Liebe ist fr alle da, is also included. The two-hour Rammstein In Amerika documentary is a chronological exploration of the band's history, from the members' shared experience of limited touring and other creative business opportunities behi

Krasna Amerika (Beautiful America) will make Texans of Czech descent proud of their heritage. Various aspects of Czech Texan life are presented in a scholarly yet lively manner. The book tells the story of early Czech settlements in Texas; about the persistence of the Czech language in subsequent generations; the folklore, music, festivals, Czech cooking and much more.

First edition, Second printing.

Alaska, 1989. In a world where Alaska is still a Russian possession, charter captain Grigorivich Plesnett has a stained past ¿ as a major in the Czar¿s Troika Guard he was cashiered for disobeying a direct order. Now, ten years later, Grig charters out to a cossack and discovers his past has not only caught up with him but is about to violently change his future, and the future of all nine of the nations of North America as well. Spanning Alaska from the Southeastern Inside Passage to the frozen Yukon, this is an epic tale of one man¿s journey of redemption and courage to face old challenges and help birth a new nation.

Book by Roland Paul, Karl Scherer

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Sud'ba literaturnogo sodruzhestva Il'fa i Petrova neobychna. Ona trogaet i volnuet. Oni rabotali vmeste nedolgo, vsego desjat' let, no v istorii sovetskoj literatury ostavili glubokij, neizgladimyj sled. Pamjat' o nih ne merknet, i ljubov' chitatelej k ih knigam ne slabeet. Shirokoj izvestnost'ju pol'zujutsja romany «Dvenadcat' stul'ev» i «Zolotoj telenok». No romany jeti vozvyshajutsja nad celym literaturnym massivom, kotoryj sostavljajut proizvedenija samyh razlichnyh zhanrov. Obozrevaja literaturnoe nasledie Il'fa i Petrova, ne tol'ko proizvedenija, napisannye imi vmeste, no i kazhdym v otdel'nosti, nel'zja ne podivit'sja shirote tvorcheskih vozmozhnostej pisatelej, literaturnomu blesku fel'etonov, ocherkov, komedij. V prilozhenii mnozhestvo vintazhnyh foto!

320 pages. German language. 8.50x5.47x0.98 inches. In Stock.

Br-Fernweh: Amerika 2 - DVD 090204774517

This fictionalized narrative, based on true events, is about a young Armenian boy tragically orphaned and filled with the haunting memories of terror and death. America extended her hand, he reached out and held tightly, never to let go.

In kaum einem Land ausserhalb Deutschlands wurde die Kritische Theorie so intensiv gelesen wie in Amerika. Fur die Ubersetzung, Verbreitung und Diskussion der Schriften Theodor W. Adornos, Max Horkheimers, Herbert Marcuses und anderer spielten die Zeitschriften Telos und New German Critique, die im Schatten der Studentenbewegung der 1960er Jahre und einer Renaissance des Marxismus gegrundet wurden, eine entscheidende Rolle. Robert Zwarg rekonstruiert erstmals die ungeheuer produktive Rezeption der Kritischen Theorie bis in die 1990er Jahre und fragt nach ihrer Transformation. Seine Historisierung der Kritischen Theorie, die Annaherung an ihren Zeitkern, bedient sich dabei ihrer eigenen Mittel. Wie wurde eine im Deutschland der Zwischenkriegszeit entstandene Denktradition zum Ausweg aus der Krise der amerikanischen Neuen Linken? Vermochten die Texte der Kritischen Theorie bei der Reise uber den Atlantik ihre analytische Kraft zu bewahren? Zwarg zeigt, welche Hoffnungen sich an die Praxis der Theorie knupften und wie sich die Ideen der Frankfurter Theoretiker unter den veranderten historischen und gesellschaftlichen Bedingungen wandelten. Die Geschichte akademischer Erfolge ist zugleich eine Geschichte philosophischer und politischer Zweifel, die viel uber die Unterschiede zwischen der Alten und der Neuen Welt verraten.

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Neuware - Von den USA aus reist Leitner weiter nach Französisch- und Britisch-Guayana, schließlich nach Haiti, Curacao, Venezuela und zuletzt nach Trinidad. Auch hier liefert sie keine exotischen Reisebeschreibungen, sondern schildert vor allem den Alltag und die konkreten Lebensbedingungen der Menschen, die ihr begegnen. Mit viel Einfühlungsvermögen schreibt sie über indische Kulis, über Tagelöhner und Prostitution im Urwald, über Diamantenaufkäufer oder auch über einen amerikanischen 'Erdölsachverständigen' - dies alles mit einem gehörigen Schuß Ironie.

In a 1798 novel by Sophie von La Roche, a European woman swims across a cold North American lake seeking help from the local indigenous tribe to deliver a baby. In a 2008 San Francisco travel guide, Milena Moser, the self-proclaimed "Patron Saint of Desperate Swiss Housewives," ponders the guilty pleasures of a media-saturated world. Wildly disparate, these two texts reveal the historical arc of a much larger literary constellation: the literature of German-speaking women who interact with the New World. In this volume, cultural historians from around the world investigate this unique literary bridge between two hemispheres, focusing on New-World texts written by female authors from Germany, Austria, or Switzerland. Encompassing a broad range of genres including novels, films, travel literature, poetry, erotica, and even photography, the essays include women's experiences across both American continents. Many of the primary literary texts discussed in this volume are available in the online collections of Sophie: A Digital Library of Works by German-Speaking Women (http://sophie.byu.edu/). Contributors: Christiane Arndt, Karin Baumgartner, Ute Bettray, Ulrike Brisson, Carola Daffner, Denise M. Della Rossa, Linda Dietrick, Silke R. Falkner, Maureen O. Gallagher, Nicole Grewling, Monika Hohbein-Deegen, Gabi Kathöfer, Thomas W. Kniesche, Julie Koser, Judith E. Martin, Sarah C. Reed, Christine Rinne, Tom Spencer, Florentine Strzelczyk, David Tingey, Petra Watzke, Chantal Wright. Rob McFarland and Michelle Stott James are both Associate Professors of German at Brigham Young University.