Letter To His Father: Bilingual Edition
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Edition: 6th pr, bilingual edition
Condition remarks:
Condition: Good. Jacket: N/A (paperback). Page Condition: Good. Markings: No markings visible. Binding: Intact. No stickers or labels.
Franz Kafka's Letter to His Father is one of the most extraordinary personal documents in all of modern literature — a raw, unflinching 47-page letter written in 1919 that Kafka never sent. In it, Kafka confronts his domineering father Hermann with a searing psychological portrait of their fractured relationship, arguing that his father's overbearing presence crushed his sense of self-worth and shaped his deepest anxieties. The letter chronicles decades of emotional distance, impossible expectations, and unspoken resentments, revealing the private torments that would permeate Kafka's fiction. This bilingual edition presents the original German text alongside an English translation, offering scholars and devoted readers an invaluable opportunity to engage with Kafka's voice in its most intimate and unguarded form. Simultaneously a confession, an accusation, and a meditation on power and guilt, it stands as an essential key to understanding one of the twentieth century's greatest literary minds.
Author: Kafka
Format: Paperback
Published: 1974, Schocken Books
Genre: Essays
Edition: 6th pr, bilingual edition
Condition remarks:
Condition: Good. Jacket: N/A (paperback). Page Condition: Good. Markings: No markings visible. Binding: Intact. No stickers or labels.
Franz Kafka's Letter to His Father is one of the most extraordinary personal documents in all of modern literature — a raw, unflinching 47-page letter written in 1919 that Kafka never sent. In it, Kafka confronts his domineering father Hermann with a searing psychological portrait of their fractured relationship, arguing that his father's overbearing presence crushed his sense of self-worth and shaped his deepest anxieties. The letter chronicles decades of emotional distance, impossible expectations, and unspoken resentments, revealing the private torments that would permeate Kafka's fiction. This bilingual edition presents the original German text alongside an English translation, offering scholars and devoted readers an invaluable opportunity to engage with Kafka's voice in its most intimate and unguarded form. Simultaneously a confession, an accusation, and a meditation on power and guilt, it stands as an essential key to understanding one of the twentieth century's greatest literary minds.