Karl identifies with the stoker and decides to help him together they go to see the captain of the ship. As the ship arrives in the United States, he becomes friends with a stoker who is about to be dismissed from his job. The story describes the bizarre wanderings of sixteen-year-old European immigrant Karl Roßmann, who was forced to go to New York City to escape the scandal of his seduction by a housemaid. Plot summary The first chapter of this novel is a short story titled " The Stoker". The commonly used title Amerika can be traced to the edition of the text put together by Max Brod, a close friend of Kafka's during the latter's lifetime, after Kafka's death in 1924.
The novel incorporates many details of the experiences of his relatives who had emigrated to the United States. The novel originally began as a short story titled " The Stoker". Amerika, also known as The Man Who Disappeared, The Missing Person and as Lost in America (German: Der Verschollene), is the incomplete first novel by author Franz Kafka (1883–1924), written between 19 and published posthumously in 1927.
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