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Dearest Father : Newly Translated and Annotated
Overview
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.
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Details
- ISBN-13: 9781847497048
- ISBN-10: 1847497047
- Publisher: Alma Books
- Publish Date: September 2008
- Dimensions: 7.7 x 5 x 0.4 inches
- Shipping Weight: 0.2 pounds
- Page Count: 128
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