Dearest Father: Stories and Other Writings

Dearest Father: Stories and Other Writings

First edition cover
Author	Franz Kafka
Translator	Ernst Kaiser and Eithne Wilkins
Publisher	Schocken Books
Publication date	1954

Dearest Father: Stories and Other Writings is a collection of writings by Franz Kafka translated by Ernst Kaiser and Eithne Wilkins with notes by Max Brod (Schocken Books, 1954). ^[1] The title derives from Kafka's Letter to His Father, which begins with this salutation. ^[2] In 2007, a translation by Howard Colyer, titled Letter to My Father, was published by lulu.com. ^[3] A translation of Dearest Father, with notes and an introduction by its translators, Hannah and Richard Stokes, was published in 2008. ^[4]

Contents

• Wedding Preparations in the Country
• Reflections on Sin, Suffering, Hope, and the True Way
• The Blue Octavo Notebooks
• Letter to His Father
• Fragments from Notebooks and Loose Pages
• Paralipomena (text variants and supplementary literary material)

References

1. Kafka, Franz (1954). Dearest Father: Stories and Other Writings. Internet Archive. New York, Schocken Books.
2. Dupee, F. W. (1954-09-12). "Kafka's Struggle to Know Himself; DEAREST FATHER: Stories and Other Writings. By Franz Kafka. Edited by Max Brod. Translated from the German by Ernst Kaiser and Eithne Wilkins, New York: Schocken Books". The New York Times. ISSN   0362-4331 . Retrieved 2022-10-19.
3. Ormsby, Eric, "Man and His Maker: Kafka's 'Letter to My Father'" The New York Sun, July 8, 2008.
4. Kafka, Franz (2008), Dearest Father, UK: Alma Classics.