num_pages: 121
description: Felice Bauer was Kafka's first great love and the inspiration for his first great fiction. Six weeks after they met, he wrote The Judgment 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 to shows is the origins of Kafka's voice as a writer and his torment as a man.
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: Calder and Boyars Ltd