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| Editor | Max Brod |
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| Author | Franz Kafka |
| Working title | Der Verschollene |
| Language | German |
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| Publication place | Germany |
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| ISBN | 978-0-8112-1569-5 |
| OCLC | 58600742 |
Amerika, (German working title Der Verschollene, "The Missing") also known as The Man Who Disappeared (Amerika),[1] Amerika: The Missing Person[2] and Lost in America,[3] is the incomplete first novel by author Franz Kafka (1883–1924), written between 1911 and 1914[4] and published posthumously in 1927. The novel originally began as a short story titled "The Stoker". The novel incorporates many details of the experiences of his relatives who had emigrated to the United States. The commonly used title Amerika is from the edition of the text put together by Kafka's close friend, Max Brod, after Kafka's death in 1924. It has been published in several English-language versions, including as Amerika, translated by Edwin and Willa Muir (1938); as The Man Who Disappeared (Amerika), translated by Michael Hofmann (1996); as Amerika: The Missing Person, translated by Mark Harman (2008), as Lost in America, translated by Anthony Northey (2010), and as The Man Who Disappeared (America), translated by Ritchie Robertson (2012).
- ^ 1996 English translation by Michael Hofmann, Penguin Books
- ^ 2008 English translation by Mark Harman, Schocken Books
- ^ Kafka, Franz (2010). Lost in America. Translated by Northey, Anthony. Prague: Vitalis Verlag. ISBN 978-80-7253-316-9.
- ^ Douglas Shields Dix, "The Man Who Disappeared: Kafka Imagining Amerika", Kafka.org