Dearest Father

Zusatztext The only artist I felt could be my brother was Kafka. Informationen zum Autor Franz Kafka Klappentext 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. Zusammenfassung 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 and highly conflicted relationship between an unflinching parent and an extremely sensitive child.

Product details

• Authors: Franz Kafka
• Assisted by: Hannah Stokes (Translation), Richard Stokes (Translation)
• Publisher: Alma Books
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.09.2008
• EAN: 9781847497048
• ISBN: 978-1-84749-704-8
• No. of pages: 115
• Dimensions: 128 mm x 198 mm x 11 mm
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Biographies, autobiographies; BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Literary Figures, Diaries, letters & journals