Amerika (37 page)

BIBLIOGRAPHY

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PRIMARY

While all of Kafka's works are interrelated, the following titles have a direct bearing on
The Missing Person.

Kafka, Franz.
The Complete Stories.
Ed. Nahum N. Glatzer. New York, 1983.

———.
The Diaries, 1910-1923.
Ed. Max Brod. New York, 1988.

———.
Letters to Felice.
New York, 1973.

———.
Letter to His Father.
Bilingual edition. New York, 1966.

SECONDARY

BIOGRAPHICAL

Begley, Louis.
The Tremendous World I Have Inside My Head: Franz Kafka: A Biographical Essay.
New York, 2008.

Brod, Max.
Franz Kafka: A Biography.
Trans. G. Humphreys Roberts and Richard Winston. New York, 1960.

Citati, Pietro.
Kafka.
Trans. Raymond Rosenthal. New York, 1990.

Harman, Mark. “Biography and Autobiography: Necessary Antagonists?”
Journal of the Kafka Society
10 (1986): 56-62.

———. “Missing Persons: Two Little Riddles about Kafka and Berlin.” In
New England Review
25 (2004): 225-32.

Murray, Nicholas.
Kafka: A Biography.
New Haven, 2004.

Pawel, Ernst.
The Nightmare of Reason: A Life of Franz Kafka.
New York, 1985.

Stach, Reiner.
Kafka: The Decisive Years.
Trans. Shelley Frisch. New York, 2005.

Wagenbach, Klaus.
Franz Kafka: Pictures of a Life.
Trans. Arthur S. Wensinger. New York, 1984.

———.
Kafka.
Boston, 2003.

THE MISSING PERSON

Alter, Robert. “Franz Kafka: Wrenching Scripture.”
New England Review
21, no. 3 (2000): 7-19.

Anderson, Mark. “Kafka in America: Notes on a Travelling Narrative.” In
Kafka's Clothes: Ornament and Aestheticism in the Habsburg “Fin de Siècle,”
pp. 98-122. Oxford, U.K., 1992.

Bamforth, Iain. “Self-Made Man: Kafka and America.”
PN Review
30, no. 3 (2004): 43-47.

Bergel, Lienhard. “Amerika: Its Meaning.” In
Franz Kafka Today,
ed. Angel Flores and Homer Swander, pp. 117-125. Madison, Wisconsin, 1958.

Boa, Elizabeth. “Karl Rossmann, or the Boy who Wouldn't Grow Up.” In
From Goethe to Gide,
ed. Mary Orr, pp. 168-83. Exeter, U.K., 2005.

Doctorow, E. L. “Franz Kafka's
Amerika.
” In
Creationists: Selected Essays, 1993-2006,
pp. 129-41. New York, 2006.

Duttlinger, Carolin. “Visions of the New World: Photography in Kafka's
Der Verschollene.
”
German Life and Letters
59, no. 3 (2006): 423-45.

Emrich, Wilhelm. “The Modern Industrial World: The Novel
The Man Who Was Lost Sight Of.
” In
Franz Kafka,
trans. S. Z. Buehne, pp. 276-315. New York, 1968.

Fuchs, Anne. “A Psychoanalytic Reading of
The Man Who Disappeared.
” In
The Cambridge Companion to Kafka,
ed. Julian Preece, pp. 25-41. Cambridge, U.K., 2002.

Harman, Mark. “Kafka Imagining America: A Preface.”
New England Review
29, no. 1 (2008): 10-22.

Hermsdorf, Klaus. “Kafka's
America.
” In
Franz Kafka: An Anthology of Marxist Criticism,
ed. and trans. Kenneth Hughes, pp. 22-37. Hanover, N.H., 1981.

Northey, Anthony. “The Discovery of the New World: Kafka's Cousins and
Amerika.
” In
Kafka's Relatives: Their Lives and His Writing,
pp. 51-68. New Haven, Conn., 1991.

Payne, Kenneth. “Franz Kafka's
America.
”
Symposium
51, no. 1 (1997): 30-42.

Politzer, Heinz. “
Der Verschollene:
The Innocence of Karl Rossmann.” In
Franz Kafka: Parable and Paradox,
pp. 116-62. Ithaca, N.Y., 1966.

Ruland, Richard E. “A View from Back Home: Kafka's
Amerika.
”
American Quarterly
13 (1961): 33-42.

Spilka, Mark.
Kafka and Dickens: A Mutual Interpretation.
London, 1963.

Shaked, Gershon. “The Sisyphean Syndrome: On the Structure of Kafka's
Amerika.
” In
The Dove and the Mole: Kafka's Journey into Darkness and Creativity,
ed. Moshe Lazar and Ronald Gottesman, pp. 135-49. Malibu, Calif., 1987.

Steiner, Carl. “How American Is
Amerika
?”
Journal of Modern Literature
6, no. 3 (1977): 455-65.

Tambling, Jeremy. “The States and the Statue: Kafka on America.” In
Lost in the American City: Dickens, James and Kafka,
pp. 181-229. Basingstoke, U.K., 2001.

Tedlock, E. W., Jr. “Kafka's Imitation of
David Copperfield.
”
Compara tive Literature
7, no. 1 (1955): 52-62.

Zilcosky, John. “The ‘America' Novel: Learning How to Get Lost.” In
Kafka's Travels: Exoticism, Colonialism, and the Traffic of Writing,
pp. 41-70. New York, 2003.

GENERAL

Adorno, Theodor. “Franz Kafka.” In
Prisms,
trans. Samuel and Shierry Weber, pp. 243-71. Boston, 1997.

Alter, Robert.
Necessary Angels: Kafka, Benjamin, Scholem.
Cambridge, Mass., 1990.

Anderson, Mark, ed.
Reading Kafka: Prague, Politics, and the Fin de Siècle.
New York, 1989.

Arendt, Hannah. “Franz Kafka: A Reevaluation.” In
Essays in Understanding, 1930-1945,
ed. Jerome Kohn, pp. 69-80. New York, 1994.

Beck, Evelyn Torton.
Kafka and the Yiddish Theater: Its Impact on His Work.
Madison, Wis., 1971.

Benjamin, Walter. “Franz Kafka on the Tenth Anniversary of his Death.” In
Illuminations,
ed. Hannah Arendt, trans. Harry Zohn, pp. 111-45. New York, 1969.

Borges, Jorge Luis. “Franz Kafka: The Vulture.” In
Selected Non-Fictions,
ed. Eliot Weinberger, pp. 501-3. New York, 1999.

———. “Kafka and His Precursors.” In
Selected Non-Ficitons,
ed. Eliot Weinberger, pp. 363-65. New York, 1999.

Bruce, Iris.
Kafka and Cultural Zionism.
Madison, Wis., 2007.

Corngold, Stanley.
Franz Kafka: The Necessity of Form.
Ithaca, N.Y., 1988.

Calasso, Roberto.
K.
Trans. Geoffrey Brock. New York, 2005.

Gilman, Sander.
Franz Kafka: The Jewish Patient.
New York, 1995.

Harman, Mark. “Making everything a ‘little uncanny': Kafka's deletions in the manuscript of
Das Schloss.
” In
Companion to the Works of Franz Kafka,
ed. James Rolleston, pp. 325-46. Rochester, N.Y., 2002.

———. “Life into Art: Kafka's Self-Stylization in the Diaries.” In
Franz Kafka (1883-1983): His Craft and Thought,
ed. Roman Struc and J. C. Yardley, pp. 101-116. Waterloo, Ontario, 1986.

Robert, Marthe.
As Lonely as Franz Kafka.
Trans. Ralph Manheim. New York, 1982.

Robertson, Ritchie.
Kafka: Judaism, Politics and Literature.
Oxford, 1985.

Rolleston, James.
Kafka's Narrative Theater.
University Park, Pa., 1974. Sokel, Walter H.
The Myth of Power and the Self: Essays on Franz Kafka.
Detroit, Mich., 2002.

Spector, Scott.
Prague Territories: National Conflict and Cultural Innovation in Franz Kafka's Fin de Siècle.
Berkeley, Ca., 2000.

Weinberg, Helen.
The New Novel in America: The Kafkan Mode in Contemporary Fiction.
Ithaca, N.Y., 1970.

Zischler, Hanns.
Kafka Goes to the Movies.
trans. Susan H. Gillespie. Chicago, 2002.

TRANSLATING KAFKA

Coetzee, J. M. “Translating Kafka.” In
Stranger Shores: Literary Essays: 1986-1999,
pp. 74-87. New York and London, 2001.

Corngold, Stanley. “On Translation Mistakes, with Special Attention to Kafka in
Amerika.
” In
Lambent Traces: Franz Kafka,
pp. 176-93. Princeton, N.J., 2004.

Crick, Joyce. “Kafka and the Muirs.” In
The World of Franz Kafka,
ed. J. P. Stern, pp. 159-75. New York, 1980.

Damrosch, David. “Kafka Comes Home.” In
What Is World Literature?,
pp. 187-205. Princeton, N.J., 2003.

Durrani, Osman. “Editions, Translations, Adaptations.” In
Cambridge Companion to Kafka,
ed. Julian Preece, pp. 206-25. Cambridge, U.K., 2002.

Gray, Ronald. “But Kafka wrote in German.” In
The Kafka Debate,
ed. Angel Flores, pp. 242-52. New York, 1977.

Harman, Mark. “ ‘Digging the Pit of Babel': Retranslating Franz Kafka's
Castle.
”
New Literary History
27, no. 2 (1996): 291-311.Kundera, Milan. “A Sentence.” In
Testaments Betrayed: An Essay in Nine Parts.
Trans. Linda Asher. New York, 1995, pp. 97-118.

VISUAL ARTS AND ILLUSTRATION

Kippenberger, Martin. “The Happy Ending of Franz Kafka's
Amerika.
” Installation. Hamburg, Germany, 1999.

Mairowitz, David Zane, and Robert Crumb.
Introducing Kafka.
Cambridge, Mass., 1993.

FILM

Class Relations.
Film based on
The Missing Person.
Directed by Dani èlle Huillet and Jean-Marie Straub. France/Germany, 1984.

Intervista.
Directed by Federico Fellini. Italy, 1987.

THEATER

Amerika, or The Disappearance.
Adapted and directed by Gideon Lester. Boston, 2005.

Amerika.
Adapted by Ip Wischin and directed by Tino Geirun. Vienna, Austria, and Washington, D.C., 2004.

Amerika.
Adapted and directed by Osamu Matsumoto. Tokyo, 2001.

ALSO BY FRANZ KAFKA
PUBLISHED BY SCHOCKEN BOOKS

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The Castle
The Complete Stories
Diaries, 1910–1923
The Metamorphosis, In the Penal Colony, and Other Stories
The Sons
The Trial
The Zürau Aphorisms of Franz Kafka

This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents either are the product of the author's imagination or are used
fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead,
events, or locales is entirely coincidental.

Preface and translation copyright 2008 © by Mark Harman

Publisher's note copyright 2008 © by Schocken Books, a division of Random House, Inc.

All rights reserved. Published in the United States by Schocken Books, a division of Random House, Inc., New York, and in Canada by Random House of Canada Limited, Toronto.

Schocken Books and colophon are registered trademarks of Random House, Inc.

This translation is based on the German language text
Der Verschollene:
Kritische Ausgabe,
edited by Jost Schillemeit, published by S. Fischer Verlag, Frankfurt am Main, in 1983. Copyright 1983 © by Schocken Books, a division of Random House, Inc.
Amerika
was originally published in German in different form by Kurt Wolff Verlag A.G., Munich, in 1927.

Portions have previously appeared in
Gettysburg Review
and
New England Review.

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Kafka, Franz, 1883–1924.
[Amerika. English]
Amerika : the missing person : a new translation, based on the restored text / Franz Kafka ; translated and with a preface by Mark Harman.
p. cm.
Includes bibliographical references.
I. Harman, Mark. II. Title.
PT2621.A26A2313 2008 833'.912—dc22 2008013393

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