Letters to Friends, Family and Editors - Softcover

Kafka, Franz

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0805204296 ISBN 13: 9780805204292

Publisher: Schocken Books, 1988

Synopsis

This volume presents Kafka as son, brother, student, friend, lover, writer, critic, and revealing his fascination for life in all its complex, absurd and tragic manifestations. Though aware of the precariousness of letter-writing, Franz Kafka entrusted to letters many of his thoughts, impressions, experiences and expectations. These letters which follow Kafka s life from his student years through his experience as an insurance clerk to his final days, and explore his friendships with Max Brod, Feliz Weltsch and Oskar Baum confirm his place as one of the great letter-writers of the twentieth century.

About this title

Review:

"These magnificent letters, meticulously set up and annotated, show us aspects of Kafka that were only hinted at in earlier collections and help us to trace his development." --"Publishers Weekly"

About the Author:

Franz Kafka (1883-1924) was one of the giants of 20th-century German literature. His stories, such as 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 fragmentary, and was only published posthumously.

About this edition

• Publisher: Schocken Books
• Publication date: 1988
• ISBN 10: 0805204296
• ISBN 13: 9780805204292
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 509