| Letters to Friends, Family, and Editors Contributor(s): Kafka, Franz (Author), Winston, Richard (Translator), Winston, Clara (Translator) |
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ISBN: 0805209492 ISBN-13: 9780805209495 Publisher: Schocken Books Inc OUR PRICE: $25.65 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: March 1990 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Biography & Autobiography | Personal Memoirs - Biography & Autobiography | Literary Figures |
| Dewey: B |
| LCCN: 2017288340 |
| Series: Schocken Kafka Library |
| Physical Information: 1.06" H x 6.1" W x 9.2" (1.47 lbs) 528 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Collected after his death by his friend and literary executor Max Brod, here are more than two decades' worth of Franz Kafka's letters to the men and women with whom he maintained his closest personal relationships, 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, they 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. |