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Letter to the Father/Brief an Den Vater: Bilingual Edition

Letter to the Father/Brief an Den Vater: Bilingual Edition - Paperback

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Availability:In StockContributor:Franz Kafka, Ernst Kaiser (Translator), Eithne Wilkins (Translator)Series:Schocken Kafka LibraryPublish date:2015-11-03Pages:144
Language:EnglishPublisher:Schocken Books IncISBN-13:9780805212662ISBN-10:805212663UPC:9780805212662Book Category:Literary Collections, Biography & AutobiographyBook Subcategory:Letters, Personal Memoirs, Literary FiguresSize:8.00 x 5.10 x 0.40 inchesWeight:0.2998Product ID:SCRGFB7QAN
A son's poignant letter to his father--from the author of The Metamorphosis and The Trial, and one of the most important writers of the twentieth century. - "One of the great confessions of literature." --The New York Times Book Review

Franz Kafka wrote this letter to his father, Hermann Kafka, in November 1919. Max Brod, Kafka's literary executor, relates that Kafka actually gave the letter to his mother to hand to his father, hoping it might renew a relationship that had lost itself in tension and frustration on both sides. But Kafka's probing of the deep flaw in their relationship spared neither his father nor himself. He could not help seeing the failure of communication between father and son as another moment in the larger existential predicament depicted in so much of his work. Probably realizing the futility of her son's gesture, Julie Kafka did not deliver the letter but instead returned it to its author.
Language:EnglishPublisher:Schocken Books IncISBN-13:9780805212662ISBN-10:805212663UPC:9780805212662Book Category:Literary Collections, Biography & AutobiographyBook Subcategory:Letters, Personal Memoirs, Literary FiguresSize:8.00 x 5.10 x 0.40 inchesWeight:0.2998Product ID:SCRGFB7QAN
FRANZ KAFKA was born in Prague in 1883 and died of tuberculosis in a sanatorium near Vienna in 1924. After earning a law degree in 1906, he worked for most of his adult life at the Worker's Accident Insurance Institute in Prague. Only a small portion of Kafka's writings were published during his lifetime. He left instructions for his friend and literary executor Max Brod to destroy all of his unpublished work after his death, instructions Brod famously ignored.
Publisher: Schocken Books Inc

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