Dearest Father: Newly Translated and Annotated

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.

Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Alma Books
Published: 09/01/2008
ISBN: 9781847497048
Pages: 128
Weight: 0.20lbs
Size: 7.70h x 5.00w x 0.40d