Dearest Father
Dearest Father by Franz Kafka, translated by Hannah Stokes, Richard Stokes
English | May 5, 2017 | ISBN: 1847497047 | EPUB | 120 pages | 3.4 MB
English | May 5, 2017 | ISBN: 1847497047 | EPUB | 120 pages | 3.4 MB
In this open letter to his father – a letter which was never sent – Kafka tries to come to terms with one of the most deeply rooted obsessions of his troubled soul. Written as a long, tense and dramatic confession in which writer and man are gathered together in front of an ambivalent figure of authority, Dearest Father is a desperate attempt to retrace the origins of a turbulent relationship between an unflinching parent and an extremely sensitive child. Both a merciless indictment of his father and an impassioned appeal to him, Kafka’s inspired work is one of the most lucid and touching psychological documents in twentieth-century literature. This volume also includes passages from Kafka’s diaries and correspondence.