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, ...

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 ...

And what will his boss have to say? Kafka’s expressionist narrative still puzzles us ... On the other side of the door, my father begins to scold me, “Gregor ... Gregor, open that door now!” “Gregor’s ...