Letter to his Father

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franz kafko
letter to his father brief an den vater
bilingual edition
"You asked me recently why I maintain that I am afraid of you." With this famous sentence begins one of the most fascinating autobiographical statements in the history of modern literature. Kafka's Letter to His Father is a remarkable document, indispensable to the understanding of the inner life of the author. But it is more than a fragment in the jigsaw puzzle of a great writer's personality. It is a literary work of permanent value.
"The breach between father and son had always been great, by Kafka's own recognition. How could he dare to hope, then, that his father, always indifferent to his published writings, even suspicious, possibly contemptuous, of them, would suddenly respond with sympathy and the desire to forget old wounds? . . . The letter, of course, was not sent although originally it was meant to be. . . . And so his father never saw it, perhaps even remained ignorant of its existence. It is... Tovább

Fülszöveg

franz kafko
letter to his father brief an den vater
bilingual edition
"You asked me recently why I maintain that I am afraid of you." With this famous sentence begins one of the most fascinating autobiographical statements in the history of modern literature. Kafka's Letter to His Father is a remarkable document, indispensable to the understanding of the inner life of the author. But it is more than a fragment in the jigsaw puzzle of a great writer's personality. It is a literary work of permanent value.
"The breach between father and son had always been great, by Kafka's own recognition. How could he dare to hope, then, that his father, always indifferent to his published writings, even suspicious, possibly contemptuous, of them, would suddenly respond with sympathy and the desire to forget old wounds? . . . The letter, of course, was not sent although originally it was meant to be. . . . And so his father never saw it, perhaps even remained ignorant of its existence. It is a very eloquent letter, an extended inner statement and history, penetrating, beautifully articulate, scrupulously honest, never vulgar by hair-splitting, illuminating." —Saturday Review
"The Letter to His Father is Kafka's principal attempt at self-clarification. It is also one of the great confessions of literature."
—The New York Times Book Review
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