The Sunny Side of Franz Kafka

Existentialist, modernist and viral sensation: Franz Kafka is the life coach you didn't know you needed. 'The last glass of milk has not yet been drunk' There is still time. There is still hope. And sometimes, the most unexpected voice is the one we need most. Famous for his stories of the uncanny and the bleak, and for his piercing love letters, social media's favourite existentialist also had a sunny side. Dead for over a century, yet strikingly contemporary, Kafka speaks like a friend: attentive, understanding, and gently encouraging. Drawn from letters to lovers, friends, and family, these pages offer brief, luminous moments of comfort, humour, and insight, reflections on love, work, rest, and the small, often overlooked joys of everyday life. In bold and beautiful hardback, this is the perfect Christmas gift for a literary loved one.

Franz Kafka (1883-1924) was born into a Jewish family in Prague. In 1906 he received a doctorate in jurisprudence, and for many years he worked a tedious job as a civil service lawyer investigating claims at the State Worker's Accident Insurance Institute. He never married, and published only a few slim volumes of stories during his lifetime. Meditation, a collection of sketches, appeared in 1912; The Stoker: A Fragment in 1913; Metamorphosis in 1915; The Judgement in 1916; In the Penal Colony in 1919; and A Country Doctor in 1920. The great novels were not published until after his death from tuberculosis: America, The Trial and The Castle.