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Letters to Friends, Family, and Editors

Letters to Friends, Family, and Editors - Paperback

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Availability:In StockContributor:Franz Kafka, Richard Winston (Translator), Clara Winston (Translator)Series:Schocken Kafka LibraryPublish date:1990-03-10Pages:528
Language:EnglishPublisher:Knopf Doubleday Publishing GroupISBN-13:9780805209495ISBN-10:805209492UPC:9780805209495Book Category:Biography & AutobiographyBook Subcategory:Personal Memoirs, Literary FiguresSize:9.20 x 6.10 x 1.06 inchesWeight:1.4705Product ID:SC2509ERZ8
Collected after his death by his friend and literary executor Max Brod, here are more than two decades' worth of Franz Kafka's letters to the men and women with whom he maintained his closest personal relationships, from his years as a student in Prague in the early 1900s to his final months in the sanatorium near Vienna where he died in 1924.

Sometimes surprisingly humorous, sometimes wrenchingly sad, they include charming notes to school friends; fascinating accounts to Brod about his work in its various stages of publication; correspondence with his publisher, Kurt Wolff, about manuscripts in progress, suggested book titles, type design, and late royalty statements; revealing exchanges with other young writers of the day, including Martin Buber and Felix Weltsch, on life, literature, and girls; and heartbreaking reports to his parents, sisters, and friends on the declining state of his health in the last months of his life.
Language:EnglishPublisher:Knopf Doubleday Publishing GroupISBN-13:9780805209495ISBN-10:805209492UPC:9780805209495Book Category:Biography & AutobiographyBook Subcategory:Personal Memoirs, Literary FiguresSize:9.20 x 6.10 x 1.06 inchesWeight:1.4705Product ID:SC2509ERZ8
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 He left instructions for his friend and literary executor Max Brod to destroy all of his unpublished work after his death, instructions Brod famously ignored.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: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group

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