Book description
In July 1914, Franz Kafka's fianc e 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 fianc e, 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.
Elias Canetti (1905-1994) is best known in the English-speaking world
for
Crowds and Power
,
Kafka's Other Trial
and for the classic
Auto-de-Fe
. His family moved from Bulgaria to England, then Vienna, and he settled
back in England in 1938. In 1981 he received the Nobel Prize for
Literature. He was cited by the Swedish Academy for his 'writings marked
by a broad outlook and wealth of ideas and artistic power'.
