
- Publisher:
- ALMA CLASSICS
- Year of publication:
- 2008
- ISBN:
- 978-1-84749-704-8
- Pages:
- 128
DEAREST FATHER
FRANZ KAFKA
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.