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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 joyride, the authors portray an absurd, ominous world that Kafka might have invented but could never have survived.]]> 1999 3 0 false Sun Sep 02 16:55:57 -0700 2007 Thu Dec 17 08:27:56 -0800 2009 more...]]> 66273851 16507 146861 039332253X 9780393322538 8 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172182425m/146861.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172182425s/146861.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/146861.Kafka_Americana_Fiction 3.20 110 Kafka Americana has achieved cult status. Norton now brings this reimagination of our labyrinthine world to a wider audience. 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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 joyride, the authors portray an absurd, ominous world that Kafka might have invented but could never have survived.]]> 1999 2 0 false Tue Feb 24 21:14:45 -0800 2009 Tue Feb 24 21:14:45 -0800 2009 1702893 64689 146861 039332253X 9780393322538 8 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172182425m/146861.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172182425s/146861.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/146861.Kafka_Americana_Fiction 3.20 110 Kafka Americana has achieved cult status. Norton now brings this reimagination of our labyrinthine world to a wider audience. 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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 joyride, the authors portray an absurd, ominous world that Kafka might have invented but could never have survived.]]> 1999 2 0 false Tue Apr 14 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Wed Apr 01 18:59:31 -0700 2009 Wed May 13 19:19:44 -0700 2009 2970299 184928 146861 039332253X 9780393322538 8 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172182425m/146861.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172182425s/146861.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/146861.Kafka_Americana_Fiction 3.20 110 Kafka Americana has achieved cult status. 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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 joyride, the authors portray an absurd, ominous world that Kafka might have invented but could never have survived.]]> 1999 4 0 false Thu Dec 03 14:28:17 -0800 2009 Thu Dec 03 14:28:17 -0800 2009 79785501 2196528 146861 039332253X 9780393322538 8 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172182425m/146861.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172182425s/146861.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/146861.Kafka_Americana_Fiction 3.20 110 Kafka Americana has achieved cult status. Norton now brings this reimagination of our labyrinthine world to a wider audience. 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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 joyride, the authors portray an absurd, ominous world that Kafka might have invented but could never have survived.]]> 1999 0 0 false Wed Dec 02 13:01:41 -0800 2009 Wed Dec 02 13:01:41 -0800 2009 79013927 1255355 146861 039332253X 9780393322538 8 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172182425m/146861.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172182425s/146861.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/146861.Kafka_Americana_Fiction 3.20 110 Kafka Americana has achieved cult status. Norton now brings this reimagination of our labyrinthine world to a wider audience. 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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 joyride, the authors portray an absurd, ominous world that Kafka might have invented but could never have survived.]]> 1999 2 0 false Tue Nov 17 19:50:30 -0800 2009 Tue Nov 17 19:50:30 -0800 2009 77802645 244874 146861 039332253X 9780393322538 8 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172182425m/146861.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172182425s/146861.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/146861.Kafka_Americana_Fiction 3.20 110 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. 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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 joyride, the authors portray an absurd, ominous world that Kafka might have invented but could never have survived.]]> 1999 5 0 false Fri Nov 20 09:46:18 -0800 2009 Wed Oct 21 17:21:01 -0700 2009 Fri Nov 20 09:46:18 -0800 2009 75172157 1107219 146861 039332253X 9780393322538 8 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172182425m/146861.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172182425s/146861.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/146861.Kafka_Americana_Fiction 3.20 110 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. 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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 joyride, the authors portray an absurd, ominous world that Kafka might have invented but could never have survived.]]> 1999 5 0 false Wed Oct 14 20:21:28 -0700 2009 Wed Oct 14 20:21:28 -0700 2009 73375355 2785086 146861 039332253X 9780393322538 8 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172182425m/146861.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172182425s/146861.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/146861.Kafka_Americana_Fiction 3.20 110 Kafka Americana has achieved cult status. Norton now brings this reimagination of our labyrinthine world to a wider audience. 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