![]() ![]() Certain odd details reveal one Continental impression of this land at a time when so many Eastern Europeans were emigrating. The United States that Kafka depicts is more based upon myth than any real experience of the place. While this reminded me of Alice's initial fall into the rabbit hole it also alerted me that I was in a Kafka novel, albeit a slightly different type than I had read before. Within moments he is lost in the maze of the multiple levels of the ship looking for an umbrella he left behind. His absurdist novel Amerika begins with young Karl viewing the Statue of Liberty and feeling "the free winds of heaven” on his face. Though one of the most famous stay-at-homes in literature, Kafka read widely including travel books. ![]() Franz Kafka broke off writing his first novel, Amerika, on January 24, 1913. ![]()
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