Dearest Father — Franz Kafka

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 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 in twentieth century literature This volume also includes passages from Kafka s diaries and correspondence Tanıtım Bülteninden