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Franz Kafka (1883–1924) was born into a Jewish family in Prague. In 1906 he received a doctorate in jurisprudence, and for many years he worked a tedious job as a civil service lawyer investigating claims at the State Worker's Accident Insurance Institute. He never married, and published only a few slim volumes of stories during his lifetime. Meditation, a collection of sketches, appeared in 1912; The Stoker: A Fragment in 1913; Metamorphosis in 1915; The Judgement in 1916; In the Penal Colony in 1919; and A Country Doctor in 1920. The great novels were not published until after his death from tuberculosis: America, The Trial and The Castle.
Kafka's letters to Felice Bauer provide a highly personal insight into a complex man. Written between 1912 and 1917, they cover the entire period of their relationship during which they were twice engaged to be married. Collected in this way, the letters have the form and direction of a novel, albeit a somewhat tragic one, and following the gradual fraying of their bond is a powerful, quite voyeuristic experience. As Kafka's emotional and physical health decayed so did their relationship; he tellingly confesses in one letter: 'My manner of writing is not crazy in itself, but as crazy as my present way of life.' (Kirkus UK)
The Long and Winding Road
My Autobiography
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