num_pages: 121
description: 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.
language: English
title: Kafka's Other Trial: The Letters to Felice
titlecomplete: Kafka's Other Trial: The Letters to Felice
characters: Felice Bauer, Franz Kafka
genres: Biography, Books About Books, Bulgaria, German Literature, Nonfiction, Literature, Essays, Criticism, History, Literary Criticism
ratings_count: 509
publisher: Schocken