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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, Dearest 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.
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Dearest Father, Franz Kafka
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- Released
- 2017
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- Title
- Dearest Father
- Language
- English
- Authors
- Franz Kafka
- Publisher
- Alma Books
- Released
- 2017
- Format
- Paperback
- Pages
- 128
- ISBN10
- 1847497047
- ISBN13
- 9781847497048
- Series
- Tags
- Fiction, Historical Themes, True Stories, Biographies, Family, Classics, Short Stories, Autobiographies & Memoirs, German Literature, Relationships, 20th century, Emotions, Past, Fear, Childhood, Letters, Mothers, Father, Guilt, Son
- First published
- 1919
- Original title
- Brief an den Vater
- Rating
- 4.1 out of 5
- Description
- 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, Dearest 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.