Kafka Americana / (Record no. 126824)

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035 ## - SYSTEM CONTROL NUMBER
System control number (Sirsi) i9780393322538
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System control number (Sirsi) i9780393322538
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020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER
International Standard Book Number 039332253X
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International Standard Book Number 9780393322538
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System control number (OCoLC)47976006
050 #4 - LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CALL NUMBER
Classification number PS3562.E8544
Item number K343 2001
049 ## - LOCAL HOLDINGS (OCLC)
Holding library VF$A
100 1# - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME
Personal name Lethem, Jonathan.
245 10 - TITLE STATEMENT
Title Kafka Americana /
Statement of responsibility, etc. Jonathan Lethem, Carter Scholz.
260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC.
Place of publication, distribution, etc. New York :
Name of publisher, distributor, etc. W.W. Norton,
Date of publication, distribution, etc. c2001.
300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
Extent 100 p. ;
Dimensions 21 cm.
505 0# - FORMATTED CONTENTS NOTE
Formatted contents note Blumfeld, an elderly bachelor / Carter Scholz -- The notebooks of Bob K. / Jonathan Lethem -- Receding horizon / Jonathan Lethem & Carter Scholz -- The amount to carry / Carter Scholz -- K for fake / Jonathan Lethem.
520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC.
Summary, etc. Previously 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 & Scholz seize a helpless Kafka by the lapels & 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 & Charles Ives, to muse on what can & can't be insured. And Lethem's "K for Fake" brings together Orson Welles, Jerry Lewis, & 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. In an act of literary appropriation by turns witty, affectionate, and shameless, Jonathan Lethem and Carter Scholz seize a helpless Franz 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 a 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 professional conference with fellow insurance executives Wallace Stevens and Charles Ives, for a night of musing 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 where Kafka faces, needless to say, fraudulent charges. Taking Modernism's presiding genius for a literary joyride, the authors portray an absurd, ominous world that Kafka might have invented but could never have survived.
600 10 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME
Personal name Kafka, Franz,
Dates associated with a name 1883-1924
Form subdivision Fiction.
700 1# - ADDED ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME
Personal name Scholz, Carter.
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    Library of Congress Classification     Storms Research Center Storms Research Center Main Collection 10/28/2025   PS3562 .E8544 K343 2001 98634811 10/28/2025 10/28/2025 Book