Kafka Americana
Carter Scholz
(Author)
Jonathan Lethem
(Author)
Description
Previously published only in a signed, limited edition, Kafka Americana has achieved cult status. Norton now brings this reimagination of our labyrinthine world to a wider audience. In an act of literary appropriation, Lethem and Scholz seize a helpless Kafka by the lapels and thrust him into the cultural wreckage of twentieth-century America. In the collaboratively written Receding Horizon, Hollywood welcomes Kafka as scriptwriter for Frank Capra's It's a Wonderful Life, with appropriately morbid results. Scholz's The Amount to Carry transports the legal secretary of the Workman's Accident Insurance Institute to a conference with fellow insurance executives Wallace Stevens and Charles Ives, to muse on what can and can't be insured. And Lethem's K for Fake brings together Orson Welles, Jerry Lewis, and Rod Serling in a kangaroo trial in which Kafka faces fraudulent charges. Taking modernism's presiding genius for a joyride, the authors portray an absurd, ominous world that Kafka might have invented but could never have survived.Product Details
Price
$16.00
Publisher
W. W. Norton & Company
Publish Date
September 17, 2001
Pages
100
Dimensions
5.74 X 8.24 X 0.28 inches | 0.3 pounds
Language
English
Type
Paperback
EAN/UPC
9780393322538
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About the Author
Carter Scholz is the co-author of Palimpsests. His novel Radiance was published in 2002. He lives in California.
JONATHAN LETHEM is the author of several novels, including Motherless Brooklyn; The Fortress of Solitude;Gun, with Occasional Music; and Dissident Gardens.