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Andrea Bagoje andread5a0 — I love this book so far. It's very pertinent to our times and I have learned a lot about Turkey by reading it. Beautifully written.

Regis Assis regisassis — Bitingly sarcastic book about India. He doesn't pull any punches. Quite a contrast to a "Passage to India" type of book.

Amélie Brunot ameliebrunot — while the translation, as it always is with pevear and volokhonsky, is quite good, this is definitely one of my least favorite works of dostoevsky.

Emily Liao _milxy2b65 — I started reading Amerika on an airplane to Caracas, Venezuela. At first I felt strange to be reading a book named after America on my way out of it, and I a little nervous about looking like the type of American who flaunts it while I was on the road and trying to be invisible in a place where the we are not exactly considered friends. After a few chapters though, I was hit with a different take. Amerika is a story about a young boy who is displaced, stuck in a foriegn country and forced to survive while everybody he knows abandons him every thirty pages. Then, I really started to identify with the guy in a sort of sickening and terrifying way. I too was a little kid sticking myself for superficial seeming reasons in another country where I had no friends and no idea what to do. This book is definitely a piece of art, but not much of a travel companion. Just the begining left me afraid to go out there into the world and definitely put a shadow over my earlier romanticization of travel. It made me want to stop being invisible and go home to the people I care about. I think that in that sence, this book should definitely be considiered part of the Kafka corpus, it is another look at lonliness and frustration from the perspective of a small person in a big and confusing world. At the same time, it has a different sort of feel to it than The Trial or The Castle. Karl Rossman, the protagonist in Amerika is a 17 year old kid with a name and a background, realistic desires and more human sadness. He is very different from K. and Joseph K., the unnamed, sort of faceless and erie main characters in Kafka's other novels. I think for this reason, the development of Karl's story takes on a different character (no pun intended) its something a little more human, and gets to you at a bit of a deeper level. While I felt that the abrupt ending of the Trial put both the character and the reader out of their misery, when I made it to the end of what was actually written in Amerika, I really cared about Karl and wanted to see him make it through to something better. I compared Karl to myself where I saw the other two novels more as a feat in writing that I wanted to get inside or an interesting intellectual experiement. The other cool thing that this book gets into is an outsider's look on this country, and the false promises of the American dream. Don't get me wrong, this is no deToqueville-ish, boring social analysis, but through Karl's hopes and expectations, we get an interesting look at Kafka's idea of what America means and his doubts about its type of idealism. Reading this right after Peter Singer's "One World", I was definitely prepared for criticism of the American way, but this took on a different, much more emotional approach. I'm not sure if Kafka even came to America in his lifetime, but it seems that it was definitely something that he was aware of, and thought about. In general, after reading all three novels and a good chunk of his other works, I think that its safe to say that this is my favorite Kafka novel. I defininitely recomend it to someone who thought of it as marginal as compared to the other novels. I find it the most complete and emotionally intense.

Eni Várkonyi enivarkony32d3 — hopefully the full book will be out soon!