Kafka's Other Trial

In July 1914 Kafka's fiancee Felice Bauer broke off their engagement in a humiliating, tribunal-like confrontation, and Kafka, at the height of his powers, turned the experience into The Trial. Elias Canetti reads Kafka's letters to Felice one by one, from their first meeting to his last refusal to reconcile. He shows how the relationship shaped Kafka's writing and offers moving insight into the creativity of the writer and the torment he suffered as a man, a lover and an artist.