Dearest Father: Stories and Other Writings

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]

Dearest Father: Stories and Other Writings

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

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)