The missing or America – Franz Kafka | Novel

When Karl Roshin, sixteen years old, who was sent to America by his poor parents because a maid seduced him and bore him a child, stood on the deck of the ship, which had slowed down as it entered the port of New York, he saw the Statue of Liberty, which he had been watching for some time, as if the sunlight had suddenly intensified in its illumination, and as if the statue's arm with the sword had risen high in the last moments, while it was wrapped in a gust of wind. It is possible that this very novel opens a new way to understand Kafka, a way of simple, kind humanity, and that the two great novels (The Trial and The Castle) begin to influence, starting from here and from themselves and without any explanation. It also becomes clear to me from the letters and critical articles I receive that Kafka's effects in their uniqueness and majestic sublimity will always be understood and loved more. Max Brod, in the novel The Missing, accurately and extensively describes Kafka as the world of work in the modern age, this world that grinds everything and turns it into dust, and does not allow for rest periods, only allowing the succession of hands of work. This novel is one of the most revealing global novels about modern industrial society with insight, foresight, and clarity.