Letters to Felice (The Schocken Kafka Library) by Franz Kafka (EPUB)

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More than two decades of letters from one of the greatest writers of the twentieth century—the author of The Metamorphosis and The Trial—to the people in his life, from his years as a student in Prague in the early 1900s to his final months in the sanatorium near Vienna where he died in 1924. Sometimes surprisingly humorous, sometimes wrenchingly sad, these letters, collected after Kafka’s death by his friend and literary executor Max Brod, include charming notes to school friends; fascinating accounts to Brod about his work in its various stages of publication; correspondence with his publisher, Kurt Wolff, about manuscripts in progress, suggested book titles, type design, and late royalty statements; revealing exchanges with other young writers of the day, including Martin Buber and Felix Weltsch, on life, literature, and girls; and heartbreaking reports to his parents, sisters, and friends on the declining state of his health in the last months of his life.

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⭐it’s the book i wanted.

⭐The talent and importance of Franz Kafka is beyond dispute (who could ever forget the insect Gregor Samsa?). This book published in 1967 is based on his letters to Felice Bauer, the love of his life, and letters to her friend Grete Bloch. It was not translated until the early 70’s and added important insights to what is known of this literary genius of the 19th century.The book begins with “An Introductory Essay” concerning Kafka’s wishes for publication, “Editors’ Note” about the controversy, “Letters to Felice,” “Notes,” an essay by Kafka, “Chronology from 1912-1917,” as well as additional information about translations of other Kafka novels and stories from the Schocken Kafka Library.The letters mostly describe to Felice (twice his fiancée) his “dread of the union even with the most beloved woman” because he held the conviction that he was literature itself, obeying a command from heaven.

⭐This book is pure proof Franz Kafka was a stalker. It’s endlessly entertaining with letter after letter assuring Felice there is nothing untoward for a 30-year old to be writing an 18-year old, but he really needs to know what she’s wearing and everyone she meets and exact records of what they said to her. He wants every tiny detail of her life so he suggests keeping a notebook with her to be precise in the details when she writes him. Franz wrote up to 4 letters a day for many years, so it’s a very dense book. I would have liked to read her letters too, but you get a real sense of them from his letters. I like the kindle version so I can just dip in without having to carry around a 600-page book.

⭐Gorgeous book. Very aesthetically pleasing, too.

⭐They lived in it with it around it on it under it awed aware agog with it we do too. Read a copy. Then read Danny Kahneman’s Thinking Fast and Thinking Slow, EA Abbotts Flatland Euclids Elements and get a good reference hard copy of The Di Alogues of Plato as told by Socrates. When you need some dessert as you will justly deserve the Illiad is illuminating when one Taus the Tao and suddenly the world is not the illusion that is presented to the mind by the brain bag of bags of electrochemical juice. No that is not the way it works.

⭐The spine of the book looks quite distressed – doesn’t really seem like it is brand new which is disappointing considering the price :/

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