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Letter to the Father/Brief an Den Vater: Bilingual Edition
Letter to the Father/Brief an Den Vater: Bilingual Edition | Franz Kafka
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Franz Kafka wrote this letter to his father, Hermann Kafka, in November 1919. Max Brod, Kafka s 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 Kafka s 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 son s gesture, Julie Kafka did not deliver the letter but instead returned it to its author."
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Consuelo238
Carta al padre | Franz Kafka
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Si tú creciste en una familia que se considera “normal” léete este texto y replantea tu vida, hay muchas personas que se sentirán identificadas tal como es mi caso, y te llevará a recordar momentos que se asemejan a los que Kafka relata, no es aburrido de leer y sin duda te das cuenta del porque la narrativa de este autor está tan ligada a los relatos donde el personaje central es menospreciado.

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Unfortunately this letter was never handed to its recipient. The letter is hard to stomach and depicts young Kafkas hardship in finding acceptance or even recognition of his mere existence from the very person that gave life to him. #kafka #letter #father #artist #fatherson #family #familiaffairs #author #writer #toxicfamily #toxicparents #genius

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Carta al padre | Franz Kafka
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Dearest Father | Franz Kafka, Hannah Stokes, Richard Stokes
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Hence that old proverb is only very remotely applicable: that a bird in the hand is worth two in the bush. My hand is empty, the bush is full and yet- as dictated by the conditions of battle and the exigencies of life- I must choose emptiness.

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Dearest Father | Franz Kafka, Hannah Stokes, Richard Stokes
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Back on Litsy after a long sabbatical. I've read some amazing books along the way. My current read would be this. Poignant and raw, from who else but Kafka?

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