Dearest Father. Stories and Other Writings
Encyclopedia
Dearest Father. Stories and Other Writings is a collection of writings by Franz Kafka
translated by Ernst Kaiser and Eithne Wilkins with notes by Max Brod
(Schocken Books
, 1954). The title derives from Kafka's Letter to His Father
, which begins with this salutation.
Franz Kafka
Franz Kafka was a culturally influential German-language author of short stories and novels. Contemporary critics and academics, including Vladimir Nabokov, regard Kafka as one of the best writers of the 20th century...
translated by Ernst Kaiser and Eithne Wilkins with notes by Max Brod
Max Brod
Max Brod was a German-speaking Czech Jewish, later Israeli, author, composer, and journalist. Although he was a prolific writer in his own right, he is most famous as the friend and biographer of Franz Kafka...
(Schocken Books
Schocken Books
Schocken Books is a publishing company that was established in Berlin with a publishing office in Prague in 1931 by the Schocken Department Store owner Salman Schocken. It published the writings of Martin Buber, Franz Rosenzweig, Franz Kafka and S. Y...
, 1954). The title derives from Kafka's Letter to His Father
Letter to His Father
Letter to His Father is the name usually given to the letter Franz Kafka wrote to his father Hermann in November 1919, indicting him for his emotionally abusive and hypocritical behavior towards him....
, which begins with this salutation.
Contents
- Wedding Preparations in the CountryWedding Preparations in the CountryWedding Preparations in the Country is an incomplete work by Franz Kafka which depicts in great detail the journey of the groom, Raban, travelling to the country to meet his future wife, Betty...
- Reflections on Sin, Suffering, Hope, and the True Way
- The Eight Octavo NotebooksThe Blue Octavo NotebooksThe Blue Octavo Notebooks is a series of eight notebooks written by Franz Kafka from late 1917 until June 1919. The name was given to them by Max Brod, Kafka's literary executor, to differentiate them from the regular quarto-sized notebooks Kafka used as diaries...
- Letter to His FatherLetter to His FatherLetter to His Father is the name usually given to the letter Franz Kafka wrote to his father Hermann in November 1919, indicting him for his emotionally abusive and hypocritical behavior towards him....
- Fragments from Notebooks and Loose Pages
- Paralipomena (text variants and supplementary literary material)