Letters To Felice (Schocken Classics) by Kafka, Franz, paperback, Used - Accept
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Letters To Felice (Schocken Classics) by Kafka, Franz, paperback, Used - Accept
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A book with obvious wear. May have some damage to the book cover but the book is still completely intact. The binding may be slightly damaged around the edges but it is still completely intact. May have some underlining and highlighting of text and some writing in the margins, but there are no missing pages or anything else that would compromise the readability or legibility of the text. See the seller’s listing for full details and description of any imperfections.
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- ISBN
- 9780805208511
About this product
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
ISBN-10
0805208518
ISBN-13
9780805208511
eBay Product ID (ePID)
1352199
Product Key Features
Original Language
German
Book Title
Letters to Felice
Number of Pages
624 Pages
Language
English
Publication Year
2016
Topic
European / General, Letters, Personal Memoirs, Literary
Genre
Literary Criticism, Biography & Autobiography, Literary Collections
Book Series
The Schocken Kafka Library
Format
Trade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height
1.3 in
Item Weight
23.5 Oz
Item Length
9.2 in
Item Width
6.1 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Trade
LCCN
87-032232
Dewey Edition
19
Reviews
"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
Dewey Decimal
833/.912 B
Synopsis
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., Franz Kafka met Felice Bauer in August 1912, at the home of his friend Max Brod. Energetic, down-to-earth, and life-affirming, the twenty-five-year-old secretary was everything Kafka was not, and he was instantly smitten. Because he was living in Prague and she in Berlin, his courtship was largely an epistolary one--passionate, self-deprecating, and anxious letters sent almost daily, sometimes even two or three times a day. But soon after their engagement was announced in 1914, Kafka began to worry that marriage would interfere with his writing and his need for solitude. The more than five hundred letters Kafka wrote to Felice--through their breakup, a second engagement in 1917, and their final parting in the fall of that year, when Kafka began to feel the effects of the tuberculosis that would eventually claim his life--reveal the full measure of his inner turmoil as he tried, in vain, to balance his desire for human connection with what he felt were the solitary demands of his craft.
LC Classification Number
PT2621.A26Z48413
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