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Letters to Felice (The Schocken Kafka Library) Paperback – 27 April 1989

by Franz Kafka (Author), Erich Heller (Editor), Jurgen Born (Editor)
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  1. ISBN-10
    0805208518
  2. ISBN-13
    978-0805208511
  3. Edition
    1st Pbk. Ed
  4. Publisher
    Schocken Books
  5. Publication date
    27 April 1989
  6. Part of series
    The Schocken Kafka Library
  7. Language
    English
  8. Dimensions
    17.02 x 3.58 x 23.16 cm
  9. Print length
    624 pages
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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

About the Author

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 He left instructions for his friend and literary executor Max Brod to destroy all of his unpublished work after his death, instructions Brod famously ignored.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 Books; 1st Pbk. Ed edition (27 April 1989)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Paperback ‏ : ‎ 624 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0805208518
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0805208511
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 17.02 x 3.58 x 23.16 cm
  • Customer reviews:
    4.6 out of 5 stars 63

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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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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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5.0 out of 5 stars Franz Kafka endlessly obsessing over dear Felice is unintentionally hilarious.
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