Franz Kafka: by day, a mild-mannered insurance executive; by night a seminal Twentieth Century fabulist. Author of The Trial, The Castle, The Metamorphosis, Amerika.
Franz Kafka: Czech refugee, American screenwriter, painter of sad-eyed waifs, reclusive superhero with an identity problem. Associate of Frank Capra, Orson Welles, Charles Ives, Wallace Stevens, Gary Cooper, Rod Serling, and Roberto Begnini.
Franz Kafka: victim of an audacious, witty, hermetic, affectionate and shameless literary appropriation and reimagination by Jonathan Lethem and Carter Scholz.
These five stories project Kafka into a modern America he never lived to see, but might have invented--a world of material wealth and spiritual vapidity, filled with the detritus of postwar culture: old comic books, Hollywood movies, and tacky paintings of crying children.
Table of Contents:
- Blumfeld, an Elderly Bachelor - (1993) - shortstory by Carter Scholz
- The Notebooks of Bob K. - (1999) - shortfiction by Jonathan Lethem
- Receding Horizon - (1995) - shortstory by Jonathan Lethem and Carter Scholz
- The Amount to Carry - (1998) - novelette by Carter Scholz
- K for Fake - (1999) - shortfiction by Jonathan Lethem