by Franz Kafka (Author), RichardStokes (Translator), HannahTurnerStokes (Translator)
Conflict between father and son is one of the oldest themes in literature, and 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, Letter to my Father is a desperate attempt to retrace the origins of a turbulent and highly conflicted 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 of the twentieth century.
Format: Paperback
Pages: 128
Publisher: Oneworld Classics Ltd
Published: 01 Sep 2008
ISBN 10: 1847490255
ISBN 13: 9781847490254