by Franz Kafka · Tascabili Economici Newton · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788879830591
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«Lettera al padre» is Franz Kafka's autobiographical letter, published by Tascabili Economici Newton in paperback (98 pages, in Italian).
Kafka wrote this long letter to his father without ever delivering it; in it he reviews his childhood and the weight of a paternal authority he felt as hostile. The text combines intimate confession with reflection on his own literary vocation, and shows how that relationship conditioned his way of understanding the world and of writing.
The original text, «Brief an den Vater», is dated 1919. This edition is complete and includes an introduction by Italo Alighiero Chiusano and a translation by Francesca Ricci.
For readers of Kafka and of epistolary and autobiographical literature.
Franz Kafka was a German-language Jewish Czech writer and novelist born in Prague, in the Austro-Hungarian Empire. Widely regarded as a major figure of 20th-century literature, his works fuse elements of realism and the fantastique, and typically feature isolated protagonists facing bizarre or surreal predicaments and incomprehensible bureaucratic powers. The term Kafkaesque has entered the lexicon to describe situations like those depicted in his writings. His best-known works include the novella The Metamorphosis (1915) and the novels The Trial (1924) and The Castle (1926). He is also celebrated for his brief fables and aphorisms, which frequently incorporated comedic elements alongside the darker themes of his longer works. His work has widely influenced artists, philosophers, composers, filmmakers, literary historians, religious scholars, and cultural theorists.
