In any of these countries - and in the US, too - it’s hard to imagine Russia attacking one’s hometown as it has attacked Ukrainian cities. For many who live in Germany, France or Japan, the liberal world order is at best an abstraction and at worst an attempt to put a favorable spin on American dominance. While the West’s political and security establishment (with a few exceptions, notably Hungary) agrees that Russia must be defeated to uphold the liberal world order, prevent Russian aggression from spreading and teach a lesson to dictators tempted to follow Vladimir Putin’s expansionist example, millions of people outside this establishment are unmoved by such arguments. In the US, the share of people who say the government is doing too much for Ukraine is on the rise, and in Germany, a steady majority contends that diplomatic efforts to resolve the conflict are insufficient. UK Postage £3.40 Airmail to Rest of the World £20.00 (except the EU, where we no longer export due to slow and lost deliveries, and excessive and unpredictable charges since Brexit) We only use airmail as surface mail can take up to 10 weeks.Throughout the West, support for supplying Ukraine with weapons has been wavering. In Kafka, it is intrinsic to human existence.' This edition is illustrated by Bill Bragg and translated by Michael Hofmann. Their differences however, he says, are equally revealing: 'In Dickens, the source of cruelty is largely social and therefore amenable to correction. In his introduction, James Lasdun provides a fascinating exploration of two writers who shared 'an instinctive sympathy with the downtrodden an abiding interest in the effect of large, impersonal forces on small, vulnerable human beings'. Part social satire, part coming-of-age novel, Amerika is lighter in tone than the rest of Kafka's ?ction, and owes a debt to a writer he hugely admired: Charles Dickens. Kafka himself never visited America, and the novel contains many charming idiosyncrasies: San Francisco is situated on the east coast, and a bridge connects New York with Boston. A picaresque and idiosyncratic romp, it follows the adventures of Karl Rossmann, sent away from home after getting a maid pregnant, as he leaves Europe and travels across America. Amerika was the ?rst of Kafka's novels, but the last to be published. Bound in paper, printed with a design by Bill Bragg Set in Elysium.
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