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More than two decades of letters from one of the greatest writers of the twentieth century—the author of The Metamorphosis and The Trial—to the people in his life, from his years as a student in Prague in the early 1900s to his final months in the sanatorium near Vienna where he died in 1924. 

Sometimes surprisingly humorous, sometimes wrenchingly sad, these letters, collected after Kafka's death by his friend and literary executor Max Brod, include charming notes to school friends; fascinating accounts to Brod about his work in its various stages of publication; correspondence with his publisher, Kurt Wolff, about manuscripts in progress, suggested book titles, type design, and late royalty statements; revealing exchanges with other young writers of the day, including Martin Buber and Felix Weltsch, on life, literature, and girls; and heartbreaking reports to his parents, sisters, and friends on the declining state of his health in the last months of his life.
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Morris Dickstein praises deeply emotional love letters in NYT review

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“Some of the most heartrending ‘love letters’ ever written.”
—Morris Dickstein, 
The New York Times Book Review

“Kafka’s correspondence with Felice has all the earmarks of his fiction—the same nervous attention to minute particulars, the same paranoid awareness of shifting balances of power, the same atmosphere of emotional suffocation—combined, surprisingly enough, with moments of boyish ardor and delight. Taken together, Elias Canetti observes, the letters provide an index of the emotional events that would inspire
The Trial—a novel, Canetti argues, in which Kafka’s engagement to Felice is reimagined as the mysterious and menacing arrest of the hero.”
—Michiko Kakutani,
The New York Times

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FRANZ KAFKA was born in Prague in 1883 and died of tuberculosis in a sanatorium near Vienna in 1924. After earning a law degree in 1906, he worked for most of his adult life at the Worker's Accident Insurance Institute in Prague. Only a small portion of Kafka's writings were published during his lifetime. He left instructions for his friend and literary executor Max Brod to destroy all of his unpublished work after his death, instructions Brod famously ignored.

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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Schocken
  • Publication date ‏ : ‎ December 6, 2016
  • Edition ‏ : ‎ Reprint
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Print length ‏ : ‎ 624 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0805208518
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0805208511
  • Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 2.31 pounds
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 6.08 x 1.32 x 9.16 inches
  • Part of series ‏ : ‎ The Schocken Kafka Library
  • Best Sellers Rank: #109,226 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
  • Customer Reviews:
    4.6 out of 5 stars (83)

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Franz Kafka was born in 1883 in Prague, where he lived most of his life. During his lifetime, he published only a few short stories, including “The Metamorphosis,” “The Judgment,” and “The Stoker.” He died in 1924, before completing any of his full-length novels. At the end of his life, Kafka asked his lifelong friend and literary executor Max Brod to burn all his unpublished work. Brod overrode those wishes.

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Franz Kafka (Praga, Imperio austrohúngaro, 3 de julio de 1883 - Kierling, Austria, 3 de junio de 1924) fue un escritor de origen judío nacido en Bohemia que escribió en alemán. Su obra está considerada una de las más influyentes de la literatura universal y está llena de temas y arquetipos sobre la alienación, la brutalidad física y psicológica, los conflictos entre padres e hijos, personajes en aventuras terroríficas, laberintos de burocracia, y transformaciones místicas.

Fue autor de tres novelas, El proceso (Der Prozeß), El castillo (Das Schloß) y El desaparecido (Amerika o Der Verschollene), la novela corta La metamorfosis (Die Verwandlung) y un gran número de relatos cortos. Además, dejó una abundante correspondencia y escritos autobiográficos. Su peculiar estilo literario ha sido comúnmente asociado con la filosofía artística del existencialismo --al que influenció-- y el expresionismo. Estudiosos de Kafka discuten sobre cómo interpretar al autor, algunos hablan de la posible influencia de alguna ideología política antiburocrática, de una religiosidad mística o de una reivindicación de su minoría etnocultural, mientras otros se fijan en el contenido psicológico de sus obras. Sus relaciones personales también tuvieron gran impacto en su escritura, particularmente su padre (Carta al padre), su prometida Felice Bauer (Cartas a Felice) y su hermana (Cartas a Ottla).

El término kafkiano se usa en el idioma español para describir situaciones surrealistas como las que se encuentran en sus libros y tiene sus equivalentes en otros idiomas. Solo unas pocas de sus obras fueron publicadas durante su vida. La mayor parte, incluyendo trabajos incompletos, fueron publicados por su amigo Max Brod, quien ignoró los deseos del autor de que los manuscritos fueran destruidos.

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  • 5 out of 5 stars
    OBEYING A COMMAND FROM HEAVEN
    Reviewed in the United States on June 30, 2013
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    The talent and importance of Franz Kafka is beyond dispute (who could ever forget the insect Gregor Samsa?). This book published in 1967 is based on his letters to Felice Bauer, the love of his life, and letters to her friend Grete Bloch. It was not translated until the early 70's and added important insights to what is known of this literary genius of the 19th century.

    The book begins with "An Introductory Essay" concerning Kafka's wishes for publication, "Editors' Note" about the controversy, "Letters to Felice," "Notes," an essay by Kafka, "Chronology from 1912-1917," as well as additional information about translations of other Kafka novels and stories from the Schocken Kafka Library.

    The letters mostly describe to Felice (twice his fiancée) his "dread of the union even with the most beloved woman" because he held the conviction that he was literature itself, obeying a command from heaven.

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  • 5 out of 5 stars
    Franz Kafka endlessly obsessing over dear Felice is unintentionally hilarious.
    Reviewed in the United States on October 22, 2014
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    This book is pure proof Franz Kafka was a stalker. It's endlessly entertaining with letter after letter assuring Felice there is nothing untoward for a 30-year old to be writing an 18-year old, but he really needs to know what she's wearing and everyone she meets and exact records of what they said to her. He wants every tiny detail of her life so he suggests keeping a notebook with her to be precise in the details when she writes him. Franz wrote up to 4 letters a day for many years, so it's a very dense book. I would have liked to read her letters too, but you get a real sense of them from his letters. I like the kindle version so I can just dip in without having to carry around a 600-page book.

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  • 5 out of 5 stars
    what I expected
    Reviewed in the United States on January 23, 2023
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    it’s the book i wanted.

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  • 5 out of 5 stars
    A peek into Kafka’s life.
    Reviewed in the United States on August 24, 2019
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    Gorgeous book. Very aesthetically pleasing, too.

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  • 3 out of 5 stars
    Good book
    Reviewed in India on November 13, 2023
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    I gave this to a friend and she loved it

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    Arrived with signs of damage
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    The spine of the book looks quite distressed - doesn’t really seem like it is brand new which is disappointing considering the price :/

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    Damaged and appears aged
    Reviewed in India on August 21, 2023
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    The book came in a very rough shape. The print wasn’t clear, and the spine wasn’t intact, the paper back of the book was by itself looking creased and withered. And all of this was very unexpected and disappointing to see since the cost was high in the first place.

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    The book came in a very rough shape. The print wasn’t clear, and the spine wasn’t intact, the paper back of the book was by itself looking creased and withered. And all of this was very unexpected and disappointing to see since the cost was high in the first place.

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