Amerika Anthony Burgess Yet In a Silent Way

Yet In a Silent Way continues to bedazzle

showing how Germany rushed headlong into destroying itself and an entire continent

Sophie Bramly lived in New York in the early 1980s and became firmly embedded in the emergent scene

From graceful and mournful piano notes

guiding us from Mount Olympus to the depths of Hades

Amerika Anthony Burgess Yet In a Silent WayA lyrical translation of Kafka's first novel a menacing allegory of modern life. Karl Rossman has been banished by his parents to America, following a family scandal. There, with unquenchable optimism, he throws himself into the strange experiences that lie before him as he slowly makes his way into the interior of the great continent. Kafka's first novel (begun in 1911 and never finished) is infused with a quite un Kafkaesque blitheness and