A sonâs poignant letter to his fatherâfrom the author of The Metamorphosis and The Trial, and one of the most important writers of the twentieth century. âĒ âOne of the great confessions of literature.â âThe New York Times Book Review
Franz Kafka wrote this letter to his father, Hermann Kafka, in November 1919. Max Brod, Kafkaâs literary executor, relates that Kafka actually gave the letter to his mother to hand to his father, hoping it might renew a relationship that had lost itself in tension and frustration on both sides. But Kafkaâs probing of the deep flaw in their relationship spared neither his father nor himself. He could not help seeing the failure of communication between father and son as another moment in the larger existential predicament depicted in so much of his work. Probably realizing the futility of her sonâs gesture, Julie Kafka did not deliver the letter but instead returned it to its author.
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