Bauer, Felice

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In July 1914, Franz Kafka's fiancee Felice broke off their engagement in a humiliating public tribunal. In this short book, Elias Canetti explores each letter that Kafka wrote to Felice and offers insights into the torment he suffered as a man, a lover and a writer. (Publisher).

Franz Kafka first met Felice Bauer in August 1912, at the home of his friend Max Brod. The twenty-five-year-old career woman from Berlin'energetic, down-to-earth, life-affirming'awakened in him a desire to marry. Kafka wrote to Felice almost daily, sometimes even twice a day. Be…