β Scribed by Franz Kafka
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
Franz Kafka first met Felice Bauer in August 1912, at the home of his friend Max Brod. The twenty-five-year-old career woman from Berlin--energetic, down-to-earth, life-affirming--awakened in him a desire to marry. Kafka wrote to Felice almost daily, sometimes even twice a day. Because he was living in Prague and she in Berlin, their letters became their sole source of knowledge of each other. But soon after their engagement in 1914, Kafka began having doubts about the relationship, fearing that marriage would imperil his dedication to writing and interfere with his need for solitude. Through their break-up, a second engagement in 1917, and their final parting later that year, when Kafka began falling ill with the tuberculosis that would eventually claim his life, their correspondence continued. The more than five hundred letters that Kafka wrote to Felice over the course of those five years were acquired by Schocken from her in 1955. They reveal the full measure of Kafka's...
π SIMILAR VOLUMES
### Product Description In My Blood Approves, Peter Townsend fell in love with Alice Bonham, but she wasn't his first love. In a new novella told through his letters, his history is revealed.
Ha llegado un nuevo vecino al edificio nΓΊmero nueve de la Calle AlegrΓa.Todos los vecinos desconfΓan de Γ©l, pues no es como ninguno de ellos. Su forma de ser, de ver las cosas y de vivir los tiene a todos desconcertados.Nadie entiende por quΓ© siempre estΓ‘ sonriendo y de buen humor.
"The way Harrison has embedded his entire vision of our predicament implicitly in the particulars of two poetic lives, his own and Yesenin's, is what makes the poem not only his best but one of the best in the past twenty-five years of American writing."--Hayden Carruth, _Sulfur_ "Harrison inhabits
**Franz Kafka's letters to his one-time muse, Milena Jesenska - an intimate window into the desires and hopes of the twentieth-century's most prophetic and important writer** Kafka first made the acquaintance of Milena Jesenska in 1920 when she was translating his early short prose into Czech, and