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A new translation by Hannah and Richard Stokes was published by Oneworld Classics in 2008 under the title Dearest Father. Extracts from the letter, translated by Sophie Prombaum, are included in A Franz Kafka Miscellany. [5] The letter begins as follows: "Dearest Father, You asked me recently why I maintain that I am afraid of you.
The title derives from Kafka's Letter to His Father, which begins with this salutation. [2] In 2007, a translation by Howard Colyer, titled Letter to My Father, was published by lulu.com. [3] A translation of Dearest Father, with notes and an introduction by its translators, Hannah and Richard Stokes, was published in 2008. [4]
Letters to Family, Friends, and Editors is a book collecting some of Franz Kafka's letters from 1900 to 1924. The majority of the letters in the volume are addressed to Max Brod . Originally published in Germany in 1959 as Briefe 1902-1924 , the collection was first published in English by Schocken Books in 1977.
Kafka was born near the Old Town Square in Prague, then part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire.His family were German-speaking middle-class Ashkenazi Jews.His father, Hermann Kafka (1854–1931), was the fourth child of Jakob Kafka, [11] [12] a shochet or ritual slaughterer in Osek, a Czech village with a large Jewish population located near Strakonice in southern Bohemia. [13]
Betrachtung (published in English as Meditation or Contemplation) is a collection of eighteen short stories by Franz Kafka written between 1904 and 1912. It was Kafka's first published book, printed at the end of 1912 (with the publication year given as "1913") in the Rowohlt Verlag on an initiative by Kurt Wolff.
The diaries of Franz Kafka, written between 1910 and 1923, include casual observations, details of daily life, reflections on philosophical ideas, accounts of dreams, and ideas for stories. Kafka’s diaries offer a detailed view of the writer's thoughts and feelings, as well as some of his most famous and quotable statements.
Description of a Struggle is a collection of short stories and story fragments by Franz Kafka. [1] First published in 1936 after Kafka's death by Max Brod , it was translated by Tania and James Stern and published in 1958 by Schocken Books .
The Blue Octavo Notebooks (sometimes referred to as The Eight 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.