30 – Franz Kafka's America
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A Novel of the Same Name
This is the period of sort of dollar princesses when for some strange reason I don't really understand to do with pride or a feeling of something. Lots of, like American eries, a married to bankrupt European aristocrats which ends about as well as you can imagine. The first chapter takes place on the ship just to sketch the plot. It's this very characteristic series of seemingly small and ridiculous mishaps which kind of gradually spiral into a sort of greater and greater displacement. A young man with whom he had struck up a slight acquaintance during the crossing said to him in passing, well, don't you want to get off? He raised his suitcase onto his shoulder. But as he watched
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