![]() Upon his arrival and serendipitous encounter with his Uncle Jacob, Karl feels relatively positive about his new environment. Karl’s attempts to gain a foothold in an alien, incomprehensible country are perpetually stymied by various restrictive scenarios and domineering personalities.Īmerica is represented as alternately emancipatory and confining. Kafka’s narrative depicts the inconclusive struggle of a young man named Karl Rossman who ventures to the United States in order to escape a pregnancy scandal in his homeland. Kafka never crossed the Atlantic to America, and much of his knowledge of the New World was drawn from family lore and writings by Charles Dickens (who wrote of his travels in the United States) and the fantasist Karl May. ![]() The Czech writer Franz Kafka (1883–1924) wrote Amerika between 19, but the novel was not published until 1927, several years after the author’s death. ![]()
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