this letter broke my heart ....💔

The first page of Kafka's letter to his fatherFrom Feedback to Reflux: Kafka's Cybernetics of Revolt, by Tom McCarthyPublisher's Note--Letter to the Father/Brief an den Vater

This is a harsh longish letter to Kafka's father that his father thankfully never read. It gives some insight into Kafka's gloomy mind. The Trial, The Castle, Amerika, all are classics of surreal political theater, existentialist classics, all amazing, but this letter, which he never intended we ever read and maybe we shouldn't, depicts an ungenerous, bitter young man who doesn't convince us that his father is as horrible as Kafka thinks he is. Maybe as a father who once was emotionally separate...

Letter to His FatherKafka's remarkable letter to his abusive and narcissistic father. In-depth review here

Haunting, sad, disturbing, emotional and a lot of truth inside it. This book is scary if you are an obedient and faithful child (which by the way most of us were and are). My parents never were anything like the author’s father and that’s why I feel so grateful towards them. When I think about some of my friends, their lives and their parents, it saddens me. This book then looks like the ultimate truth.God forbid me to think of myself in Kafka’s place, but to read this book one has to know what

Brief an den Vater = Letter to His Father, Franz KafkaLetter to Father is considered the key to the literary work of Franz Kafka (1883-1924). This impressive testimony of a dramatic father-son conflict is an exceptional document in world literature. At once an indictment and a self-analysis, it gives the reader an insight into the complex inner life of its author. In a vivid captivating style, Kafka attempts to settle accounts with his authoritarian father, who appeared to him so tyrannical and

The letter written by the famous novelist to his father reveals the deep misunderstanding between the two. In his long epistle, which never reached its destination, Franz Kafka speaks of his father as someone different from him in almost every regard. Even physically, the father differs from the son. He is strong, well-built, and agile. Franz, in his childhood, suffered from his physical inferiority compared to his father’s strength.Franz confesses that the inner world of his father has always b...

I have felt very uncomfortable reading this letter. And the thought that I--together with a very large number of people-- have read something which was not intended for us, as well as the knowledge that the original addressee never read it, contributed further to my uneasiness.Franz Kafka wrote this letter to his father Hermann in 1919, when he was about thirty-six years old. His father's opposition to his planned marriage to Julie Wohryzeck (this was Franz’s second attempt at marriage; previous...

i’m at a loss for words just standing by kafka’s window hungry for all i do not know. “i felt a miserable specimen, and what’s more, not only in your eyes but in the eyes of the whole world, for you were for me the measure of all things.”

Having read the Judgment just yesterday and while the story is still fresh in my memory, I could not help but notice the similarities between Georg and Franz. They both feared of getting married, had a terrible relationship with their father, feared their father, had a judgemental and unsupportive father...and last but not least the fancy blouse and the skirt...Yes obviously Kafka's works are confessional and kind of autobiographical even in the metamorphosis Gregor Samsa and Franz have thin...

English: Letter to the Father / Brief an den VaterIt's a well-established fact that our Franz did struggle with the relationship to his father, a self-made businessman whom he experienced as physically and mentally stronger than himself. But reading this letter - which is more of a therapeutic exercise, it was never really posted and only published posthumously in 1952 -, one has to wonder whether one of the greatest authors ever actually was a drama king, and not in the literary sense. Or shoul...

We should all always be on guard against facile psychologism, i.e., assuming that a certain fact about an author's life is somehow the key to understanding his work. For example, Martin Heidegger trained to be a priest but was dismissed from the seminary, and so it would be very easy to say "a ha!" and somehow trace his entire intellectual career back to that moment -- he ended up becoming a sort of post-Schellingian German Theologia figure because of his thwarted dreams for the priesthood, or w...

Letter to FranzDear Franz,I unabashedly went through your private letter to your father. I read it, and reread it, you made me ponder, you made me aware of stuff I counted as trivial, you made me fear, you made me cry, and you made me write letters! Letters I tore after writing, instead, I opted for talking in person. It all comes down to a choice, you chose to hand your letter to your mom, she chose not to deliver it, and I chose to talk face to face! Isn’t it hard Franz, that the whole world c...

OK, Kafka is my most favorite author in the whole world and the love of my life, plus this is his most personal piece of writing, plus I have had similar problems with my own father. Is it a surprise then that I empathically adored his desperate cry for freedom and a little compassion?

"Dearest Father,You asked me recently why I maintain that I am afraid of you. As usual, I was unable to think of any answer to your question, partly for the very reason that I am afraid of you, and partly because an explanation of the grounds for this fear would mean going into far more details than I could even approximately keep in mind while talking. And if I now try to give you an answer in writing, it will still be very incomplete, because, even in writing, this fear and its consequences ha...

"…it is, after all, not necessary to fly right into the middle of the sun, but it is necessary to crawl to a clean little spot on earth where the sun sometimes shines and one can warm oneself a little." (97)Kafka is one of the writers absolutely dearest to me¬¬—the literary artist and literary psychologist supreme, along with Dostoevsky and Hamsun, and probably Camus. I have read all of his fiction and the aphorisms that he penned down; his numerous letters and diaries I have in digital form. Ov...

A letter that never reached his destiny.Franz Kafka lived in fear of his father, an authoritarian and malicious man, all his childhood. As an adult, while the horror of this father still exists, in this letter addressed to him, Franz Kafka tries to analyse the consequences of this destructive relationship. This paternal domination has made him a gloomy, solitary and introverted man, unable to commit himself to a lasting relationship.The anguish also gave birth and carried an exceptional work.

Man, I read this so long ago. There was a prolonged period of time where I read tons of Kafka, eventually pulling down "The Trial" and "The Castle" in due course. It's not so much that I was going through an existential crisis at the time (any more than any sensitive, intelligent person might be at any point on the bewildering map) more that it was, and still is, just fascinating to watch Kafka's mind and imagination play itself before my eyes, like a butterfly struggling in a pool of oil.He's a...

‎‫‏‬‬‬‬‬‬“It is as if a person were a prisoner, and he had not only the intention to escape, which would perhaps be attainable but also, and indeed simultaneously, the intention to rebuild the prison as a pleasure dome for himself. But if he escapes, he cannot rebuild, and if he rebuilds, he cannot escape.”.• This letter is, maybe, the most heartbreaking letter I’ve ever read! A devastated son writes to his tyrannous father telling him about his complicated feelings about him. I couldn’t imagine...

I'm not going to grade this one, not necessarily because it doesn't feel right to grade something as private as a letter but because I'm clueless as to how I'm supposed to grade it. How can I grade this letter without casting some kind of judgement to Franz Kafka? For Franz comes off a bit whiny in this letter at times. It is hard for me to say it because I have the biggest reader crush on the man, but Franz is a bit extreme in his criticism here, pulling out every unpleasant memory he could thi...