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Author Elias Christopher grew up in the Inwood section of Manhattan during the 1970's. Inwood is the same neighborhood Jim Carroll wrote about in his hard-hitting book Basketball Diaries. Much like Jim Carroll, Elias found himself addicted to drugs and a subculture. Excerpt: I was arrested for robbing an apartment and the State of New York changed the law where juveniles could be charged and sentenced as adults. The prosecutors were out in full force making cases. I was looking at jail time. At this point in my life, I was far-gone, I did not give a shit about anything, nor did I fear jail....

Felice Bauer was Kafka's first great love and the inspiration for his first great fiction. Six weeks after they met, he wrote -The Judgment- for her in one night of feverish activity. Kafka always inferred to the traumatic, public breaking-off of their engagement as his -tribunal, - and indeed he began work on The Trial within a month of that event.
Kafka's letters to Felice offer rare insights into the writer's life and art. Elias Canetti's brilliant and sensitive examination of this moving correspondence to shows is the origins of Kafka's voice as a writer and his torment as a...