Amerika

As you may know, I'm away for the summer interning for Bread for the World in Washington, DC.

Oryza and I decided in order to keep in touch in a schedule that would allow neat conversation, we would start our own two-person book club.

The first book in our (probably two-book) series is Franz Kafka's unfinished first work, Amerika. It's the story of a young Russian who is banished by his parents to America after some business involving a housemaid. The entire text is supposed to be so picturesque and strange in its depiction of Kafka's America, and I'm very excited.



Here's the schedule, for any of you watching at home:

Chapter I - finished by June 02
Chapter II - finished by June 06
Chapter III - finished by June 10
Chapter IV - finished by June 14
Chapter V - finished by June 18
Chapter VI - finished by June 22

There are two other portions with other short stories about the same character, and then three fragments included in our copies of the text, and we will decide on June 22 if we want to continue with those or not.