42898X1 Fourteenth Printing. Schocken Books, New York: 1976. 299 pages. Softcover. Good condition. This is Kafka's comic masterpiece. In this entertaining novel, he tells the story of Karl Rossman, "a poor boy of sixteen who had been packed off to America by his pareents because a servant girls had seduced him and got herself a child by him." In the land of opportunity Karl is expected to redeem his past, but soon encounters a series of dizzy reversals and strange adventueres. He falls into the clutches of an improbable assortment of native rogues. Still, the benign influence of a magical America finally reasserts itself in a bizarre "Nature Theatre of Oklahoma." Translated into English from the German by Willa and Edwin Muir. $9.60USD
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