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Letter to the Father/Brief an den Vater by Franz Kafka

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Letter to the Father/Brief an den Vater by Franz Kafka

Franz Kafka wrote this letter to his father, Hermann Kafka, in November 1919. Max Brod, Kafka's literary executor, relates that Kafka actually gave the letter to his mother to hand to his father, hoping it might renew a relationship that had lost itself in tension and frustration on both sides. But Kafka's probing of the deep flaw in their relationship spared neither his father nor himself. He could not help seeing the failure of communication between father and son as another moment in the larger existential predicament depicted in so much of his work. Probably realizing the futility of her son's gesture, Julie Kafka did not deliver the letter but instead returned it to its author.

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ISBN 13 9780805212662
ISBN 10 0805212663
Title Letter to the Father/Brief an den Vater
Author Franz Kafka
Series The Schocken Kafka Library
Condition Unavailable
Binding Type Paperback
Publisher Schocken Books
Year published 2015-11-03
Number of pages 144
Cover note Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.

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