Letters to Felice

Infobox Book
name = Letters to Felice
title_orig = "Briefe an Felice"
translator = James Stern and Elisabeth Duckworth


image_caption = 1973 English edition of "Letters to Felice"
author = Franz Kafka
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country = United States
language = German
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genre = Letters
publisher = Schocken Books
release_date = 1967
english_release_date = 1973
media_type = Print, Hardcover
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isbn = 0-8052-3500-0
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"Letters to Felice" is a book collecting some of Franz Kafka's letters to Felice Bauer from 1912 to 1917. Schocken Books acquired these letters from Felice Bauer in 1955, in addition to roughly half of Kafka's letters to Grete Bloch, Bauer's friend. Additional letters to Bloch were acquired at a later date. During the period of the correspondence Kafka and Bauer were engaged twice, and Kafka produced some of his most famous works, including The Metamorphosis, In the Penal Colony and his first attempts at writing The Trial.

Originally published in German in 1967 as "Briefe an Felice", the collection was first published in English by Schocken Books in 1973. It was translated by James Stern and Elisabeth Duckworth.

Bulgarian novelist Elias Canetti wrote about the correspondence in "Kafka's Other Trial: The Letters to Felice". Through a reading of the letters along with sections of "The Trial" Canetti examined Kafka's struggle between a comfortable middle-class life and individual isolation.

References

Kafka, Franz. "Letters to Felice" New York: Schocken Books. 1973. ISBN 0805235000