Brief an den Vater. - Softcover

Kafka, Franz

Softcover

ISBN 10: 345834649X ISBN 13: 9783458346494

Publisher: Insel Verlag, 2003

Synopsis

Franz Kafka wrote the letter to the father in 1919, but never showed it to his father. The immediate trigger was the father's disapproval of Franz Kafka's unfaithful engagement with the cobbler daughter Julie Wohryzek, on the other hand the hurting indifference with which he had reacted to the narrative volumes in the penal colony and a country doctor. But even while writing, Kafka cannot free himself from his precarious bond. Rather, the relationship characterized by fear, love and contempt equally appears even more threatening. He stylizes the father into that oversized power that provokes his writing activity as a backlash and prevents the unfolding of his bourgeois existence.
Kafka's Letter to the Father is among his most detailed and painful autobiographical documents. As a literary work, it became famous as the self-told suffering story of a Franz K.

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About the Author

Franz Kafka was born to Jewish parents in Bohemia in 1883. Kafka s father was a luxury goods retailer who worked long hours and as a result never became close with his son. Kafka s relationship with his father greatly influenced his later writing and directly informed his Brief an den Vater (Letter to His Father). Kafka had a thorough education and was fluent in both German and Czech. As a young man, he was hired to work at an insurance company where he was quickly promoted despite his desire to devote his time to writing rather than insurance. Over the course of his life, Kafka wrote a great number of stories, letters, and essays, but burned the majority of his work before his death and requested that his friend Max Brod burn the rest. Brod, however, did not fulfill this request and published many of the works in the years following Kafka s death of tuberculosis in 1924. Thus, most of Kafka s works were published posthumously, and he did not live to see them recognized as some of the most important examples of literature of the twentieth century. Kafka s works are considered among the most significant pieces of existentialist writing, and he is remembered for his poignant depictions of internal conflicts with alienation and oppression. Some of Kafka s most famous works include The Metamorphosis, The Trial and The Castle.

Edition details

• Publisher: Insel Verlag
• Publication date: 2003
• Language: German
• ISBN 10: 345834649X
• ISBN 13: 9783458346494
• Binding: Paperback