Letters to Felice

Author:   Franz Kafka ,  James Stern ,  Elisabeth Duckworth ,  Jurgen Born
Publisher:   Schocken Books
Edition:   Pbk ed.
ISBN:  

9780805208511


Pages:   624
Publication Date:   06 December 2016
Format:   Paperback
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More than two decades of letters from one of the greatest writers of the twentieth century—the author of The Metamorphosis and The Trial—to the people in his life, 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, these letters, collected after Kafka's death by his friend and literary executor Max Brod, 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.

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Author:   Franz Kafka ,  James Stern ,  Elisabeth Duckworth ,  Jurgen Born
Publisher:   Schocken Books
Imprint:   Schocken Books
Edition:   Pbk ed.
Dimensions:   Width: 15.50cm , Height: 3.40cm , Length: 23.30cm
Weight:   0.663kg
ISBN:  

9780805208511


ISBN 10:   0805208518
Pages:   624
Publication Date:   06 December 2016
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print   Availability explained
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Language:   German

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Some of the most heartrending 'love letters' ever written. -Morris Dickstein, The New York Times Book Review Kafka's correspondence with Felice has all the earmarks of his fiction-the same nervous attention to minute particulars, the same paranoid awareness of shifting balances of power, the same atmosphere of emotional suffocation-combined, surprisingly enough, with moments of boyish ardor and delight. Taken together, Elias Canetti observes, the letters provide an index of the emotional events that would inspire The Trial-a novel, Canetti argues, in which Kafka's engagement to Felice is reimagined as the mysterious and menacing arrest of the hero. -Michiko Kakutani,The New York Times


Some of the most heartrending love letters ever written. Morris Dickstein, <i>The New York Times Book Review</i> Kafka s correspondence with Felice has all the earmarks of his fiction the same nervous attention to minute particulars, the same paranoid awareness of shifting balances of power, the same atmosphere of emotional suffocation combined, surprisingly enough, with moments of boyish ardor and delight. Taken together, Elias Canetti observes, the letters provide an index of the emotional events that would inspire <i>The Trial</i> a novel, Canetti argues, in which Kafka s engagement to Felice is reimagined as the mysterious and menacing arrest of the hero. Michiko Kakutani, <i>The New York Times</i>


Some of the most heartrending love letters ever written. Morris Dickstein, The New York Times Book Review Kafka s correspondence with Felice has all the earmarks of his fiction the same nervous attention to minute particulars, the same paranoid awareness of shifting balances of power, the same atmosphere of emotional suffocation combined, surprisingly enough, with moments of boyish ardor and delight. Taken together, Elias Canetti observes, the letters provide an index of the emotional events that would inspire The Trial a novel, Canetti argues, in which Kafka s engagement to Felice is reimagined as the mysterious and menacing arrest of the hero. Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times


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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.

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