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	Franz Kafka
		Often Kafka's stories dealt with the struggle between father and son, or a scorned individual's pleading innocence in front of remote figures of authority.
		Kafka pystyi irtautumaan edellisen ja uuden työn etsinnän aiheuttamasta ristipaineesta uudessa toimessaan, jonka mieluisin etu lienee ollut työajan lyheneminen kuuteen tuntiin.
		Lähetettyään kirjeen Kafka pystyi tuntemaan helpotusta todellisesta maailmasta ja siitä kiitoksena kai, hänen subjektiivinen maailmansa vastasi arkailematta takaisin mestarin lailla.
	www.kirjasto.sci.fi /kafka.htm (2586 words)

	Encyclopedia :: encyclopedia : Franz Kafka (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-27)
		Kafka was born July 3, 1883, into a middle-class, German-speaking Jewish family in Prague, Bohemia—at that time a part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire.
		Kafka also had some knowledge of French language and culture; one of his favorite authors was Flaubert, and he had a sentimental fondness for Napoleon.
		While it is generally agreed that Kafka suffered from clinical depression and social anxiety through out his entire life, he suffered from migraines, insomnia, constipation, boils, and other ailments, all usually brought on by excessive stresses and strains.
	www.hallencyclopedia.com /Franz_Kafka (2431 words)

	Amerika (Kafka novel) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Amerika, also known as Der Verschollene or The Man Who Disappeared, was the incomplete first novel of author Franz Kafka, published posthumously in 1927.
		The novel is more explicitly humorous and slightly more realistic than most of Kafka's works, but it shares the same motifs of an oppressive and intangible system putting the protagonist repeatedly in bizarre situations.
		Amerika has certain similarities with Charles Dickens' David Copperfield (1850), of which Kafka said Amerika is "sheer imitation", and represents a unique interpretation of the Bildungsroman genre.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Amerika_(novel) (270 words)

	The Kafka Project \| Missing
		Kafka’s writings reveal truths about the human condition that are less about the specific psychological reality of a given character or the specific social reality of a given society than a tracing or “blueprint” (as Hannah Arendt termed it) that the reader needs to complete through an application of the blueprint to their own reality.
		Kafka was already warning her by summer that, as his wife, she could only expect to have one hour of his time daily, and, as if to enact this reality, Kafka broke off his usually profuse correspondence with her for an entire month in September, 1913.
		While Kafka may not have been thinking specifically of disappearing to America as an answer to his problems, he certainly was considering, at least abstractly, the possibility of disappearing from Prague—for example, in one of his letters to Felice, he proclaims that if she will not marry him, he will move away from Prague.
	www.kafka.org /index.php?id=195,239,0,0,1,0 (7397 words)

	Kafka's Modern Fantasy
		He admitted, "it was my intention to write a Dickens novel, but enhanced by the sharper lights I should have taken from the times and the duller ones I should have got from myself." Following Dickens' semi-autobiographical novel, he too wrote about a young man's difficult coming of age.
		Kafka, however, uses the suitcase as a psychological stand-in for Karl's identity; like Karl, it is abused until it disappears in the end.
		Kafka mentions their letters and visits home, and must have used their experiences as a source of Karl's adventures in America.
	www.amrep.org /articles/3_3c/kafka.html (1380 words)

	HighBeam Encyclopedia - Kafka, Franz (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-27)
		KAFKA, FRANZ [Kafka, Franz], 1883-1924, German-language novelist, b.
		The Castle, 1930, 1998), and Amerika (1927, tr.
		In prose that is remarkable for its clarity and precision, Kafka presents a world that is at once real and dreamlike and in which individuals burdened with guilt, isolation, and anxiety make a futile search for personal salvation.
	www.encyclopedia.com /html/K/Kafka-Fr.asp (308 words)

	Kafka - Works: Novels
		Kafka wrote the majority of the novel from 1911-1912, with additional fragments being added intermittently over the next few years until it was finally pushed aside for other things.
		Kafka himself was exempted from conscription because of his valuable contributions to his insurance company (partly run by the government), and much of his experience with the company’s bureaucracy and its relationship to the law found its way into the pages of the book.
		Kafka, at the time, was in a clumsy relationship with Felice Bauer, and biographers love to connect the relationship to the events surrounding it.
	www.themodernword.com /kafka/kafka_works_novels.html (4922 words)

	David Copperfield (novel) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Many elements within the novel follow events in Dickens' own life, and it is probably the most autobiographical of all of his novels.
		Virginia Woolf, who normally had little regard for Dickens, confessed the durability of this one novel, belonging to "the memories and myths of life".
		The numerous television adaptations of the novel include a 1966 version with Ian McKellen as David and a 1999 version with Daniel Radcliffe (better known as Harry Potter) playing the younger David.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/David_Copperfield_(novel) (2238 words)

	Disappearing Act
		In the final paragraph of Kafka's novel he literally vanishes from sight, as if the camera is panning out on a great landscape.
		And then Kafka pulls the reader's attention away from Karl to look at the journey of the train and then the mountains the train is heading into, so that Karl is literally out of the frame.
		Kafka stole many of his tricks of characterization and staging; suitcases appear and vanish, Karl loses his suit in an instant, or is bullied by the gigantic, immensely strong Head Porter, so huge he becomes grotesque.
	www.amrep.org /articles/3_3c/disappearing.html (1135 words)

	Kafka,Franz Books - Signed, used, new, out-of-print
		Kafka's stories--bleak, painfully comic, enigmatic--are invariably about man's alienation from daily life, but he creates a rich variety of worlds, from the absurdity of the hunger artist in his cage, to Gregor Samsa's vividly imagined transformation into a cockroach, to the profoundly ironic view of capital punishment in "The Penal Colony."
		Kafka's exploration of the psychological terror inherent in everyday life is both allegorical and stunningly realistic.
		Kafka's first novel is the picaresque comic tale of a young man who disgraces himself in a sexual fiasco and is sent away to Amerika by his embarrassed parents--a fantastical Amerika that existed only in Kafka's imagination.
	www.alibris.com /search/books/author/Kafka,Franz (998 words)

	Biography Of Franz Kafka (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-27)
		Franz Kafka (July 3, 1883 in Prague - June 3, 1924 in Vienna) was one of the major German language writers of the 20th century most ofwhose work was published posthumously.
		Kafka was born July 3, 1883, into a middleclass German-speaking Jewish family in Prague, in the Austrian province of Bohemia, inside the Austro-Hungarian Empire.
		The asceticism and self-deprecation with which Kafka is associated iswell-documented in the letters of his and of his friends and family; ho...
	www.vermontreview.com /edge/44698-biographyoffranzkafka.html (794 words)

	Amerika (Kafka novel) - ArticleWorld
		However, Kafka mentioned that Amerika was suppose to be an unusual interpretation of the Bildungsroman genre.
		As in Kafka’s The trail, Amerika has a rejected individual that must prove for his innocence to distant and secretive figures of authority.
		The writing in Amerika is considered to be Kafka’s most mature prose which had a clear and brief style.
	www.articleworld.org /index.php/Amerika_(Kafka_novel) (276 words)

	Amerika: The Man Who Disappeared (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-27)
		Kafka's style, which is unrefined even in Kafka's greatest works, will seem downright coarse, almost as if Kafka never intended for anyone to read the novel.
		Kafka offsets the novel's flaws, however, by constructing a captivating world for his protagonist, Karl Rossman, to inhabit.
		Kafka's novel is a meditation on the ironies of liberty, autonomy, and status.
	www.asdasports.com /store/isbn0811215695.html (1141 words)

	Franz Kafka Biography
		The sculpture was inspired by Kafka’s work, especially the story “Description of a Struggle.” The monument was erected in a tiny park between the Spanish Synagogue and the Church of the Holy Spirit, on the border of Prague’s Jewish district in a place that symbolizes the city’s religious and cultural diversity.
		Kafka was so pleased with his life, he decided to burn his previous writings.
		She married Hermann Kafka in 1882.Although Kafka was not especially close to his mother, he identified more with her side of the family.
	www.kafka-franz.com /kafka-Biography.htm (7524 words)

	The Etownian - Elizabethtown College
		Mark Harman, associate professor of modern languages and English, recently finished his translation of Franz Kafka’s novel “The Missing Person (Amerika).” The entire process took four years and the manuscript was finally sent to the publisher Friday.
		Harman views Kafka as one of the greats of the modern era, yet none of the author’s works were published during his lifetime.
		Kafka was born in Prague and had never seen America even though the novels centers on an immigrant’s travels in the country.
	www.etownian.com /050915/features-harman_translates_kafka.asp (467 words)

	America - Biocrawler (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-27)
		Amerika (Germany) - a small town in Saxony, Germany
		America is a song from West Side Story by Leonard Bernstein, also performed by the UK rock group The Nice.
		Amerika is the title of an album of the German rock group BAP and the title of a song inside this album.
	www.biocrawler.com /encyclopedia/America (363 words)

	Tate Modern \| Past Exhibitions \| Martin Kippenberger
		Although most of Kippenberger’s oeuvre tends toward the creation of a vast, interconnected artwork, The Happy End of Franz Kafka’s ‘Amerika’ (1994) is unique in that it might be considered his masterwork and the culmination of his achievement.
		Based on Kafka’s novel Amerika, the installation re-imagines a section of the book when the protagonist Karl Rossmann, having travelled across America, applies for a job at the ‘biggest theatre in the world’.
		Kafka never completed the novel, which he abandoned writing over ten years before it was posthumously published in 1927, and Kippenberger claimed that he never finished reading it, hearing the story second-hand from a friend.
	www.tate.org.uk /modern/exhibitions/kippenberger/rooms/room7.shtm (506 words)

	THEATER PREVIEW: KAFKA'S AMERIKA; A.R.T.'s Gideon Lester presents author's unfinished novel on stage
		In the scene rehearsed today, Kafka's young protagonist, Karl Rossmann, having arrived alone in America and found work as an elevator boy in a fancy hotel, has abruptly been charged with leaving his post without permission and is undergoing an inquisition by the tyrannical headwaiter and the even more fanatically authoritarian head porter.
		In an interview, the playwright talks about the novel, which Kafka began in 1911 and left unfinished at his death in 1924, in wide-ranging terms of literary influence and affinity.
		In the novel, Karl's uncle (whom he meets when he arrives in New York and who takes him under his wing for a while) is a self-made man, a great shipping magnate who has become a state senator.
	www.patriotledger.com /articles/2005/06/11/life/life01.txt (1666 words)

	Aisle Say (Boston): Amerika
		This new adaptation of Franz Kafka's early unfinished novel by the ART's associate artistic director, Gideon Lester, which runs almost three hours with intermission, may be the first attempt in English to recreate the whole work onstage.
		Lester's "Amerika or the Disappearance" clearly reflects the novelist's early sense of the cinematic and is suited to Tony-awarded Theatre de la Jeune Lune's style of physical theatre.
		Kafka's family had had chancy business dealings over here which contribute to the fantasy.
	www.aislesay.com /MA-AMERIKA.html (1095 words)

	wbur.org Arts - Theater - Lost in Amerika
		When Czech writer Franz Kafka read the first chapter of his novel "The Trial" to friends, it is reported author and listeners laughed up a storm.
		For Kafka, man is born guilty of the sin of being alive.
		Kafka brought a relaxed touch to his flyblown cartoon world about a man who fits nowhere.
	www.wbur.org /arts/2005/48592_20050627.asp (654 words)

	Who is Mark Amerika?
		Mark Amerika, who was just named a "Time Magazine 100 Innovator" as part of their continuing series of features on the most influential artists, scientists, entertainers and philosophers into the 21st century, is the author of two novels.
		His first novel, The Kafka Chronicles, is now in its third printing and his most recent novel, Sexual Blood, has been translated into Italian as Sangue Sessuale.
		Amerika was a Creative Writing Fellow and Lecturer on Network Publishing and Hypertext at Brown University where he developed the GRAMMATRON project, a multi-media narrative for network-distributed environments.
	www.altx.com /ma.html (752 words)

	Martin Kippenberger
		In the concluding chapter of Kafka’s novel, the protagonist attends an employment -recruiting center of gargantuan proportions and, after a long struggle with absurd bureaucratic structures, finally lands a job.
		Kafka’s bureaucratic machine takes on a humor and pathos in Kippenberger’s hands in his selection of worn-out, cast-off furniture.
		Like Kafka before him, Kippenberger was both satirist and allegorist of an intolerable human truth: the power of the social order to negate human will.
	www.cmoa.org /international/html/art/kippenberger.htm (306 words)

	Amerika: The Man Who Disappeared (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-27)
		Kafka did not like the book and was still doing re-writes when he died.
		One is a bit shocked to find that the first and best chapter in "Amerika" is in fact that short story "The Stoker." This chapter is by far the most interesting part of the book.
		The police, for example, stop people and ask for their "papers" in the style of a European socialist country, while Kafka places Boston is across the bridge from Manhattan, and the characters use English money, not dollars.
	www.duchs.com /isbn/0811215695 (583 words)

	Kafka and the Modern Novel -- Fall 1999
		First, we will master the major works of Kafka's oeuvre including Amerika, The Trial, The Castle, most of the major stories (such as "The Metamorphosis," "A Country Doctor," "The Burrow," "Investigations of a Dog," "In the Penal Colony," "Report to an Academy"), the parables, and substantial selections from the diaries and letters.
		And compared to what Kafka often wrote in letters and in his diaries, this is modest.
		Ideally the papers should be comparative and confrontational; they should treat relationships between one of the other novels (or stories, in the case of Borges) and Kafka, his works, or his influences.
	www.davidson.edu /academic/german/denham/Kafka/g441f99.html (1110 words)

	Who is Mark Amerika?
		Amerika's continued interest in the interface of VJ imagery, experimental electronic sound remixing, and a politically-charged hactivist practice, led to the creation of his CHROMO HACK installation, an elaborate DVD surround sound work made in commemoration of 9-11 and the collapse of mainstream media foundations.
		His first novel, The Kafka Chronicles, is now in its third printing and his most recent novel, Sexual Blood, has been translated into Italian as Sangue Sessuale.
		Amerika is a Professor in the Department of Art and Art History at the University of Colorado in Boulder where he is developing the TECHNE practice-based research initiative.
	www.grammatron.com /ma.html (853 words)

	Amerika
		Amerika was a controversial 14 and 1/2 hour miniseries.
		Amerika suggesting a Russian name for the United States was an American television miniseries that was broadcast in 1987.
		Amerika Jimenez is considered to be one of the most prolific and successful contemporary songwriter...
	www.liparlend.com /-Amerika.html (556 words)

	Amerika - F.Kafka (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-27)
		This is the beginning of Franz Kafka's first novel, one of the milestones of the twentieth century world literature.
		It is the picture of the modern age as viewed by the eyes of the youngster.
		Thanks to his literary talent he was able to express his pleasures, humor, sadness and fear in the amazing novel published posthumously.
	www.europa.lca.sk /eng-kafka-amerika.htm (180 words)

	Theatre Edition: DRAMA and PERFORMANCE
		That Kafka’s novel Der Verschollene / Amerika should have come to be known under two alternative titles is emblematic of its split identity.
		Initially, he reveals himself as the ‘Heizer’ of the novel’s opening scene, soon claiming to be ‘Onkel Jacob’ and therefore Roßmann’s natural point of contact.
		In a play, one is largely reliant on dialogue and gesture, stripped of the narrative capacities of prose; Kafka’s spare language permits this transfer, however, as Geirun Tino has claimed elsewhere: ‘Meines Erachtens schrieb Kafka theatralischer als Jelinek’.
	users.ox.ac.uk /~oaces/hutch.html (783 words)

	Amerika: The Man Who Disappeared home Mortgage and repair how to book.
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		But it is memorable and unique among novels, in that it is a journey into a world that would be our own world, isn't our own world, and yet has something mysteriously in common with it.
		It is also unique among Kafka's work in that it isn't as dreary as the rest.
	www.buyhomerepairbooks.com /books/isbn0811215695.html (1495 words)

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