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Kafka's Other Trial

  • Imprint: Penguin Classics

  • ISBN: 9780141195636

  • Length: 144  Pages

  • Dimensions: 199mm x 9mm x 133mm

  • Weight: 116g

  • RRP: £9.99

Kafka's Other Trial

In July 1914, Franz Kafka's fiancée Felice broke off their engagement in a humiliating public tribunal, surrounded by her friends and family, and the other woman with whom Kafka had recently fallen in love. Broken and bereft, Kafka - at the height of his writing powers - turned the experience into his masterpiece, The Trial, where his lovers became the faceless prosecutors of Josef K. In Kafka's Other Trial, Canetti explores each letter that Kafka wrote to his fiancée, from their first tender moments together to his final letter and his refusal to reconcile.

In this affecting book, he offers moving insights into the creativity of Franz Kafka and the torment he suffered as a man, a lover, and a writer.

  • Imprint: Penguin Classics

  • ISBN: 9780141195636

  • Length: 144  Pages

  • Dimensions: 199mm x 9mm x 133mm

  • Weight: 116g

  • RRP: £9.99

Reviews

  • Perhaps the most revealing essay on Kafka ever published. At last Kafka is matched in thought and prose

    Times Literary Supplement

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About the Author

Elias Canetti

Elias Canetti (1905-1994) born of Spanish-Jews parents, lived in in Vienna until 1937 and spent much of his working life in Britain during and after the war. He became a British citizen in 1952 but wrote in German, the language of his childhood and youth spent in Vienna, Zurich and Frankfurt.

Elias Canetti

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