Dearest Father: Newly Translated and Annotated

In this open letter to his father - a letter which was never sent - Kafka tries to come to terms with one of the most deeply rooted obsessions of his troubled soul. Written as a long, tense and dramatic confession in which writer and man are gathered together in front of an ambivalent figure of authority, Dearest Father is a desperate attempt to retrace the origins of a turbulent relationship between an unflinching parent and an extremely sensitive child. Both a merciless indictment of his father and an impassioned appeal to him, Kafka's inspired work is one of the most lucid and touching psychological documents in twentieth-century literature. This volume also includes passages from Kafka's diaries and correspondence.

Author: Franz Kafka
Publisher: Alma Books
Published: 09/01/2008
Pages: 128
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.20lbs
Size: 7.70h x 5.00w x 0.40d
ISBN13: 9781847497048
ISBN10: 1847497047
BISAC Categories:
- Biography & Autobiography | Memoirs
- Biography & Autobiography | Literary Figures

About the Author
Franz Kafka (1883-1924) was one of the giants of 20th century German literature. His stories, such as The Metamorphosis (1915), and novels, including The Trial (1925) and The Castle (1926), concern troubled individuals in a nightmarishly impersonal and bureaucratic world. His writing is some of the most influential in Western culture, although much of it is incomplete, and was only published posthumously.