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Dearest Father (Alma Classics)

Name: Dearest Father (Alma Classics)
Price: 7.90 EUR
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Author: Franz Kafka
ISBN: 9781847497048

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This edition contains the English and German text. (Letter to His Father / Brief an den Vater)

Letter to Father is considered the key to the literary work of Franz Kafka (1883-1924). This impressive testimony of a dramatic father-son conflict is an exceptional document in world literature. At once an indictment and a self-analysis, it gives the reader an insight into the complex inner life of its author. In a vivid captivating style, Kafka attempts to settle accounts with his authoritarian father, who appeared to him so tyrannical and omnipotent that he could write: "Sometimes I imagine the map of of the world spread out and you stretched diagonally across it."

Author: Franz Kafka
Manufacturer: Alma Books Ltd
Language: Angļu valoda
ISBN code: 9781847497048
Cover type: Soft cover
Year of publication:2017
Number of pages:128

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This edition contains the English and German text. (Letter to His Father / Brief an den Vater)

Conflict between father and son is one of the oldest themes in literature, and 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 and highly conflicted 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 of the twentieth century.