Jean Roche, Claire Josefson, Walter Pultz and Maria Leckey rehearse “Amerika: The Boy Who Disappeared” at the Staunton-Augusta Art Center. Photo by Rebecca J. Barnabi. “Amerika: The Man Who ...

Franz Kafka, who never visited the United States, wrote his first novel in the early 1900s, introducing 17-year-old Karl ...

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When Franz Kafka wrote his first novel between 1911 and 1914, it was a fantasy of what it would be like to disappear in a country he’d never visited — the United States. Now, Dietrich Smith, an ...

Early 20th-century German thought and African-American literature were rattling around Mark Christian Thompson's head when he reread Franz Kafka's Amerika. Also known as The Man Who Disappeared, or ...

HUMOUR is not the first thing that springs to mind when you think about the novelist Franz Kafka. But a new theatre production of one of his less well-known works, Amerika, reveals glimpses of comedy ...

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Ulin is book editor of The Times. It’s always tricky when an author’s name becomes an adjective. Orwellian, Machiavellian, Faulknerian -- these designations make it hard to see a writer on his or her ...