Dearest Father: Stories and Other Writings explained

Author:	Franz Kafka
Translator:	Ernst Kaiser and Eithne Wilkins
Pub Date:	1954
Publisher:	Schocken Books

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)

Notes and References

1. Book: Kafka, Franz . Dearest Father: Stories and Other Writings . 1954 . New York, Schocken Books . Internet Archive.
2. News: 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. . en-US . The New York Times . 2022-10-19 . 0362-4331.
3. [Eric Ormsby|Ormsby, Eric]
4. Kafka, Franz (2008), Dearest Father, UK: Alma Classics.