Der Heizer
Franz Kafka
Der Heizer
Sixteen-year-old Karl Rossmann arrives in New York by ship and, before leaving it, takes up the cause of a stoker who has been wronged. The opening chapter of Kafka's novel Amerika, published on its own in 1913. In the original German.
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About the author
Franz Kafka (1883–1924) was a German-speaking writer from Prague, then part of Austria-Hungary. He worked for most of his life at a workers' accident insurance institute and wrote in the evenings. Only a few of his stories appeared in his lifetime, among them The Metamorphosis, The Judgment and In the Penal Colony. His novels The Trial, The Castle and Amerika were published after his death by his friend Max Brod.