♦ Letter to Father
♦ The Creation and Impact of the Text

Brief an den Vater
Illustrated with drawings by Franz Kafka and including an afterword on the creation and impact of the text
- 13 x 21 cm, 92 pages
- hardback, thread-stitching, ribbon
- ISBN 978-3-89919-592-7
- In Stock
€ 12,90 (D)€ 13,30 (Ö)
The Letter to Father (1919) was never sent but is considered the key to Franz Kafka’s (1883-1924) literary work. This impressive testimony to a dramatic father-son conflict is an exceptional document in world literature. At once an indictment and a self-analysis, it gives the reader an insight into the complex inner life of its author. In a vivid captivating style, Kafka attempts to settle accounts with his authoritarian father, who appeared to him so tyrannical and omnipotent that he could write: “Sometimes I imagine the map of the world spread out and you stretched diagonally across it.”
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