Dearest Father: Stories and Other Writings is a collection of writings by Franz Kafka translated by Ernst Kaiser and Eithne Wilkins with notes by Max Brod (Schocken Books, 1954).[1] The title derives from Kafka's Letter to His Father, which begins with this salutation.[2] In 2007, a translation by Howard Colyer, titled Letter to My Father, was published by lulu.com.[3] A translation of Dearest Father, with notes and an introduction by its translators, Hannah and Richard Stokes, was published in 2008.[4]
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Author | Franz Kafka |
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Translator | Ernst Kaiser and Eithne Wilkins |
Publisher | Schocken Books |
Publication date | 1954 |
Contents
edit- Wedding Preparations in the Country
- Reflections on Sin, Suffering, Hope, and the True Way
- The Blue Octavo Notebooks
- Letter to His Father
- Fragments from Notebooks and Loose Pages
- Paralipomena (text variants and supplementary literary material)
References
edit- ^ Kafka, Franz (1954). Dearest Father: Stories and Other Writings. Internet Archive. New York, Schocken Books.
- ^ Dupee, F. W. (1954-09-12). "Kafka's Struggle to Know Himself; DEAREST FATHER: Stories and Other Writings. By Franz Kafka. Edited by Max Brod. Translated from the German by Ernst Kaiser and Eithne Wilkins, New York: Schocken Books". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2022-10-19.
- ^ Ormsby, Eric, "Man and His Maker: Kafka's 'Letter to My Father'" The New York Sun, July 8, 2008.
- ^ Kafka, Franz (2008), Dearest Father, UK: Alma Classics.