Amerika was a novel written by Franz Kafka, published in 1927, which describes the adventures of a sixteen-year-old Europeanemigrant called Karl Rossman in the United States, as a punishment for being seduced by a maid, to meet his uncle who receives him at his home and initiates him in business management.
Fired by his uncle and without any money in a strange world, he finds a job as an elevator operator working at the huge Hotel Occidental.
The novel is more humorous than most of Kafka's work, but it has the same themes of an oppressive unfair system putting the protagonist repeatedly in situations that are plainly unfair.
Amerika, also known as Der Verschollene or The Man Who Disappeared, was the first and incomplete novel written by Franz Kafka, published posthumously in 1927.
The novel is more explicitly humorous and slightly more realistic than most of Kafka's works, but it shares the same motifs of an oppressive and intangible system putting the protagonist repeatedly in bizarre situations.
Amerika has certain similarities with Charles Dickens' David Copperfield (1850), of which Kafka said Amerika is "sheer imitation", and represents a unique interpretation of the Bildungsroman genre.
Novel Murakami mengubah Jepang yang eksotik itu menjadi sebuah tempat ajaib, aneh dan mencengangkan, yang penuh individu individu terasing dan hampa.
Novel pertama Murakami, Hear the Wind Sing, terbit pada 1979, ketika dia masih berstatus pemilik sebuah bar jazz di Tokyo yang didirikannya usai menamatkan studi di Waseda.
Lewat novel inilah Murakami pertama kali dikenal di Amerika setelah edisi berbahasa Inggrisnya terbit pada Oktober 1989.
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