His contention is that while modernity purports to support the individual by providing greater order, in reality it obliterates his identity and renders him insignificant. In Amerika, Kafka laments this conflict, sympathizing as usual with the individual. But exile is also a prompt: it forces an immediate conflict between the individual and the new alien context that the individual must negotiate on his own.
The loneliness, the disconnection from one’s self and others, the strangeness and uncertainty are all conditions that have been described as elements of social alienation, which in turn has been described as an indelible feature of modern society. Suddenly you have different ideas and can tell yourself a story.There is something essentially modern about exile. By means of the tables and the eight books which were published in Rotterdam on the occasion of the exhibition, people can make up their own conversations or interviews which cross their minds. In 'The Happy End of Franz Kafka's "Amerika' it is the different decades everybody certainly remembers one of the chairs, which embodies for you this or that, and you are back in that time, it's like a visual reference book. Just as in the cycle of paintings 'The Raft of the Medusa, 'The Happy End of Franz Kafka's "Amerika'"' is a motion, a move into something else, a transition. Kippenberger said: "I had a table reconstructed at which (Robert) Musil wrote his novel 'Man Without Qualities, an endless story. Georgen give evidence of the gradual creation of the different elements for the future installation. It is, so to speak, his "opus magnum," his central work, the completion of which occupied him for more than three years. "Kippenberger's large installation "The Happy End of Franz Kafka's 'Amerika'" is a key work for the understanding of his artistic intentions.
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