Richard Ruland

America in modern European literature : from image to metaphor

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A View from Back Home: Kafka's Amerika

FRANZ KAFKA NEVER VISITED AMERICA, AND YET HIS SHORT NOVEL Amerika, begun in 1913, pictures a country and a way of life that few would say never existed.2 It is true that fact and fancy whirl across his pages in a dreamlike blur, often distorting each other until the result resembles neither realistic portrayal nor fictitious illusion, but Kafkas essential vision rarely falters, and we usually are forced to accept his fabrications as closer to the truth than his authentic details; indeed, in Kafkas hands these details absorb the expressionistic quality of the whole and seem authentic only by chance and to little ultimate purpose. Rife with inaccuracies and incredible distortions of the early twentieth-century American scene, Karl Rossmanns odyssey so nearly captures the spirit of the immigrant struggling with an unknown continent that it reads like a dramatization of Oscar Handlins The Uprooted.3 Handlin makes a careful study of the large immigrant force that deluged Americas coastal cities during the nineteenth century, tracing its trials from the first break with village life to the final gradual assimilation of the second