My article has tried to present a deep study of the novel
Amerika, written by the Prague born writer, Franz Kafka, this being the first
of the three novels that this novelist, belonging to the period of the Hitler
regime, wrote. Therefore being helplessly relegated to the margin was an
idea that was extremely familiar for this Jewish writer who died early due to
tuberculosis. The article takes up the issue of marginality and assimilation
as it traces closely, the experiences of a very young, and…
Read moreMy article has tried to present a deep study of the novel
Amerika, written by the Prague born writer, Franz Kafka, this being the first
of the three novels that this novelist, belonging to the period of the Hitler
regime, wrote. Therefore being helplessly relegated to the margin was an
idea that was extremely familiar for this Jewish writer who died early due to
tuberculosis. The article takes up the issue of marginality and assimilation
as it traces closely, the experiences of a very young, and initially naïve
protagonist, in the alien continent\country- America. Also examined in the
article is the idea of menace which the protagonist sometimes encounters. I
have also tried to probe into the psychology of a character, who has been
thrown, unprepared, into a new world, that too by way of punishment.
