Brief an den Vater - Softcover

Franz Kafka

Softcover

ISBN 10: 3843095329 ISBN 13: 9783843095327

Publisher: Hofenberg, 2015

Synopsis

Franz Kafka: Brief an den Vater Entstanden 1919, Erstdruck in: Die neue Rundschau (Frankfurt/M.), Jg. 63, 1953. Vollständige Neuausgabe mit einer Biographie des Autors. Herausgegeben von Karl-Maria Guth. Berlin 2015. Umschlaggestaltung von Thomas Schultz-Overhage unter Verwendung des Bildes: Franz Kafka, Brief an den Vater, 1919. Gesetzt aus Minion Pro, 11 pt. Über den Autor: 1883 in Prag als ältestes von sechs Kindern eines deutschjüdischen Kurzwarenhändlers geboren, studiert Franz Kafka Jura und arbeitet nach seiner Promotion für eine Versicherungsgesellschaft. Gleichzeitig erscheinen seine ersten Prosastücke in der Zeitschrift Hyperion. Der literarische Erfolg zu Lebzeiten bleibt aus. Er ist zeit seines Lebens von Selbstzweifeln geplagt, fühlt sich von einem übermächtigen Vater belastet und unterhält nacheinander wankelmütige Beziehungen zu Felice Bauer und Milena Jesenská, die er literarisch verarbeitet. Seine schwer angeschlagene Gesundheit zwingt ihn 1922 zur Aufgabe seines Brotberufes. 1924 stirbt Franz Kafka im Sanatorium Kierling bei Wien an Tuberkulose. Sein langjähriger Freund Max Brod gibt sein nur in Teilen zu Lebzeiten veröffentlichtes Werk aus dem Nachlass heraus. Kafka hatte dessen Vernichtung ausdrücklich verfügt.

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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: Hofenberg
• Publication date: 2015
• Language: German
• ISBN 10: 3843095329
• ISBN 13: 9783843095327
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 54