Kafka: Lettters to Friends, Family and Editors

By Franz Kafka

Book Overview

Collected after his death by his friend and literary executor Max Brod, here are more than two decades' worth of Franz Kafka's letters to the men and women with whom he maintained his closest personal... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0805204296
• ISBN13: 9780805204292
• Release Date: January 1988
• Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
• Length: 509 Pages
• Weight: 1.40 lbs.

Customer Reviews

The letter as integral part of the life- work

Kafka was one of the world's great letter- writers. His letters like his parables, his meditations, his fragments, his journals must be seen not as incidental and additional work but as an inherent part, a constituent center of his work. As a letter - writer Kafka has few equals. His metaphoric and poetic brilliance shine through time and time again. This collection may not have the focus of the letters written to a single person, as those to Milena and Felice Bauer but they also contain the line- by- line brilliance of mankind's greatest voice of anxiety and fear.