Amerika

Reinhard Kleist’s Amerika (1998–present) is a single-issue graphic novel from Jochen Enterprises, adapting Franz Kafka’s unfinished novel of a young European immigrant’s bewildering adventures in a surreal, mythic America. Kleist both wrote and illustrated this stark, expressive black-and-white work, capturing the absurdist tone of the source material. As an early English-language release from the German publisher, it stands as a distinctive literary adaptation that helped introduce Kleist’s signature graphic storytelling to an international audience.