Kafka
I’d like to recommend Franz Kafka’s The Judgement (a short read)– he also wrote The Metamorphosis
http://www.mala.bc.ca/~Johnstoi/kafka/judgment.htm
Picked it up for a quick read and enjoyed the parenting and printing parallels. The son writes letters to an imaginary friend. The dialog is between a father and son, with references to a deceased mother. Questions of authorship over the friend, the mother, and writing are the major conflicts which escalate to the finale.
Sam