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Informationen zum Autor Franz Kafka (1883-1924) was born into a Jewish family in Prague. In 1906 he received a doctorate in jurisprudence! and for many years he worked a tedious job as a civil service lawyer investigating claims at the state Worker's Accident Insurance Institute. He never married! and published only a few slim volumes of stories during his lifetime. Meditation! a collection of sketches! appeared in 1912; The Stoker: A Fragment in 1913; The Metamorphosis in 1915; The Judgement in 1916; In the Penal Colony in 1919; and A Country Doctor in 1920. Only a few of his friends knew that Kafka was also at work on the great novels that were published after his death from tuberculosis: America ! The Trial ! and The Castle . Klappentext New cover reissue. Zusammenfassung The story of Karl Rossman who! after an embarrassing sexual misadventure with a servant girl! is banished to America by his parents. Expected to redeem himself in the magical land of opportunity! he instead gets swept up in a whirlwind of strange escapades and dizzying adventures.
