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Letters To Friends, Family and Editors
[Paperback - 1988]
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Publisher: Schocken | ISBN: 9780805209495 | Pages: 509
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Now back in print, more than two decades worth of revelatory letters sometimes surprisingly humorous, sometimes heart-wrenchingly sad to the men and women with whom Franz Kafka maintained his closest personal relationships. Collected after his death by his friend and literary executor Max Brod, here is a treasure trove of Kafka s letters 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. They 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.

Franz Kafka (1883-1924) was one of the giants of 20th-century German literature. His stories, such as Metamorphosis (1915), and novels, including The Trial (1925) and The Castle (1926), concern troubled individuals in a nightmarishly impersonal and bureaucratic world. His writing is some of the most influential in Western culture, although much of it is fragmentary, and was only published posthumously.

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