Kafka's Other Trial: The Letters to Felice

By Elias Canetti

“Perhaps the most revealing essay on Kafka ever published. At last Kafka is matched in thought and prose.”—The Times Literary Supplement 

Felice Bauer was Kafka’s first great love and the inspiration for his first great fiction. Six weeks after they met, he wrote "The Judgement" for her in one night of feverish activity. Kafka always inferred to the traumatic, public breaking-off of their engagement as his “tribunal,” and indeed he began work on The Trial within a month of that event.

Kafka’s letters to Felice offer rare insights into the writer’s life and art. Elias Canetti’s brilliant and sensitive examination of this moving correspondence shows the origins of Kafka’s voice as a writer and his torment as a man.

Paperback
188 pages
Schocken, 1988
Originally published in 1969
5.2 x 0.4 x 7.8 inches
ISBN 9780805207057
Literature, Biography, Non-Fiction