
An Original Typed and Signed Letter by Writer and Academic Heinz Politzer to writer Neville Braybrooke. Dated 1957. An interesting letter on Kafka and his relationship of the works of St Thersea. Heinz Politzer 1910-1978 was an internationally recognized academic and writer. As a young man he was forced to flee Nazism first to Palestine and then to the United States, where he taught German language and literature as a professor at the Bryn Mawr College, Oberlin College, and the University of California, Berkeley. He was a literary scholar, published poet, and prominent editor, particularly of Franz Kafka. As a close associate of Kafka's protégé, Max Brod, Politzer coedited with Brod the first complete collection of Kafka's works in eight volumes, published initially by the Schocken publishing house of Berlin during the early years of the Nazi dictatorship and subsequently by the successor firm Schocken Books in New York.. Size is 228mm x 188mm. Condition is good. Light folding crease. Slight loss to top edge.