Franz Kafka is one of the best-known German-language ... from his family and suffered throughout his life at the hands of his father in particular, who would have preferred his son to be a ...

Manuscript of Franz Kafka’s “Letter to his Father,” 1919, National Library of Israel, Jerusalem. Photo: Ardon Bar-Hama. As in most assimilated European Jewish families in the early twentieth century, ...

Why do we continue to find Franz Kafka so compelling 100 years after his death? Why is Kafka still considered to ... more colourful literary panorama beyond the father complex and guilt-and-punishment ...

Which of Kafka’s literary characters are you ... s life. He has almost no friends, his father is already dead and his relationships with other family members have broken down. He has a successful ...