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"Inspired by affection . . . . Extremely witty and intelligent. Publishers WeeklyPreviously 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…
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BLUMFELD, AN ELDERLY BACHELOR, arrived home from work each weekday at six.
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- Title Kafka Americana
- Author Jonathan Lethem; Carter Scholz
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- Pages 100
- Publisher Subterranean Press, Burton, MI
- Date November 1999
- ISBN 9781892284433
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Burton: Subterranean, 1999. 8vo. 100 pp. Black cloth. Fine in Fine dust jacket. Number 218 of 600 copies printed. Signed by Jonathan Lehtem and Carter Scholz.. Signed by Author. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine.
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