{"product_id":"2026200011122-secondhand-letters-to-felice","title":"Letters To Felice","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition remarks:\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cbr\u003eCondition: Good to fair. Paperback. Page Condition: Good - possible tanning. Markings: possible previous owner inscription.   \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA landmark work of twentieth-century epistolary literature, Letters to Felice presents the intimate and obsessive correspondence Franz Kafka addressed to Felice Bauer between 1912 and 1917, a period that coincided with the creation of some of his greatest fiction. The letters chronicle a turbulent five-year relationship marked by two engagements, two break-ups, and Kafka's unrelenting self-examination — revealing a writer consumed by the contradictions between his need for solitude and his longing for connection. Written with extraordinary psychological intensity, they illuminate the inner architecture of one of literature's most enigmatic minds, detailing his anxieties about marriage, his devotion to writing, and his profound ambivalence toward everyday life. Edited by Erich Heller and Jürgen Born, and translated by James Stern and Elisabeth Duckworth, this Penguin Modern Classics edition presents an indispensable document for anyone seeking to understand the man behind The Trial and The Metamorphosis.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Secondhand Stock","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48956194160859,"sku":"2026200011122-SECONDHAND","price":12.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0523\/7646\/9701\/files\/25ab5b4e-66b5-452f-ae2a-01e30eb6e995.png?v=1783498985","url":"https:\/\/bookgrocer.com\/products\/2026200011122-secondhand-letters-to-felice","provider":"Book Grocer","version":"1.0","type":"link"}