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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Publisher : Schocken; 2nd edition (3 November 2015)
Language : English
Paperback : 144 pages
ISBN-10 : 0805212663
ISBN-13 : 978-0805212662
Item Weight : 1 kg 50 g
Dimensions : 12.95 x 0.99 x 20.07 cm
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