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"Inspired by affection . . . . Extremely witty and intelligent. Publishers WeeklyPreviously published only in a signed, limited edition, Kafka Americana has achieved cult status. Norton now brings this reimagination of our labyrinthine world to a wider audience. In an act of literary appropriation, Lethem and Scholz seize a helpless Kafka by the lapels and thrust him into the cultural wreckage of twentieth-century America. In the collaboratively written "Receding Horizon" Hollywood welcomes Kafka as scriptwriter for Frank Capra's It's a Wonderful Life, with appropriately morbid results. Scholz's "The Amount to Carry" transports "the legal secretary of the Workman's Accident Insurance Institute" to a conference with fellow insurance executives Wallace Stevens and Charles Ives, to muse on what can and can't be insured. And Lethem's "K for Fake" brings together Orson Welles, Jerry Lewis, and Rod Serling in a kangaroo trial in which Kafka faces fraudulent charges. Taking modernism's presiding genius for a…
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Burton, MI: Subterranean Press, 1999. Signed, Numbered, Limited Edition Cloth AS NEW in FINE DJ 8vo (5-1/2 x 8-1/4), 100 pp. Clothbound Signed, Numbered, Limited Edition (# 80 of 600) is Unread, Unmarked is AS NEW in FINE DJ (there is a diagonal crease on upper and lower corners of the inside front flap). The authors pay homage to Kafka by creating and presenting 5 short tales that Kafka might have written had he been alive in today's surreal and paranoid times. Comic terror. Both Mr Lethem and Mr Scholz are writers who have been strongly influenced by Kafka.
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Burton: Subterranean, 1999. 8vo. 100 pp. Black cloth. Fine in Fine dust jacket. Number 218 of 600 copies printed. Signed by Jonathan Lehtem and Carter Scholz. Signed by Author. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine.
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