Abstract
Franz Kafka’sDer Verschollene(The Man Who Disappeared;Amerika, 1946 [1927]¹ and Peter Weir’sThe Truman Show(1998) are stories about ‘foundlings’. In the former, Karl Rossmann’s family disclaims him; in the latter Truman is an orphan. In Kafka’s novel, the parents of sixteen-year-old Karl send him from Prague to America following a scandalous affair with the family’s housemaid. Concerned with the shame born by the affair, which left the housemaid pregnant, Karl’s parents force him to emigrate by ship to New York’s harbour. In America, Karl is alone and wants to find a job and make friends. As a
| Original language | English |
|---|---|
| Title of host publication | Mediamorphosis |
| Editors | Shai Biderman, Ido Lewit |
| Place of Publication | London |
| Publisher | Wallflower Press |
| Pages | 130-162 |
| Number of pages | 33 |
| ISBN (Electronic) | 0-231-85089-1 |
| ISBN (Print) | 9780231176446, 0231176449 |
| State | Published - 2016 |
Keywords
- Ontology
- Furniture cabinets
- Psychology
- Consumers
- Population studies
- Furniture
- Body percussion
- Arts
- Musical instruments
- Human populations
- Reality
- Nonverbal communication
- Literary characters
- Persons
- Emotion
- Decorative arts
- Clapping
- Performing arts
- Literary elements
- Emotional states
- Literature
- Social sciences
- Protagonists
- Audiences
- Communications
- Metaphysics
- Behavioral sciences
- Wardrobes
- Theater
- Gestures
- Music
- Desks
- Men
- Television viewers
- Applied arts
- Cognitive psychology
- Hope
- Philosophy