Amerika: The Missing Person by Franz Kafka

Join us for a discussion of Franz Kafka's "first and funniest novel," Amerika: The Missing Person. (That’s right, "Kafka's funniest," that's what the book jacket says.) The picaresque novel tells the story of young Karl Rossmann's adventures in America after an incident with a housemaid back home in Europe got him banished here. An America of Kafka's imagination because he never visited our fair country, except through his character Rossmann, who is understood to be Kafka's alter-ego by critics today. Let's read it. I'm using the Mark Harman translation published by Schocken Books, by the way.

This time we will meet at 130 pm in Seminar Room B at the Mission Valley Library. So, 30 minutes later than usual in the room next door. Same library though. The library limits attendance to 12. Feel free to bring your own refreshments.
-dave rankin