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Title	:	Letter to His Father
Author	:	Franz Kafka
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	Bilingual Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 127 pages
Published	:	January 1st 1987 by Schocken (first published 1952)
Categories	:	Classics. Nonfiction. Biography. European Literature. German Literature

Letter to His Father

Franz Kafka

Paperback | Pages: 127 pages

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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; previously he had approached Felice Bauer) may have prompted Kafka to write such an epistle. The letter is about one hundred pages long, was partly typed and partly handwritten. His mother intercepted the letter and never gave it to her husband. It was first published in 1952.

Kafka had a textual mind and a tormented personality. And his highly analytical thinking communicated better through letters. He wrote many. I read years ago his Letters to Milena: Expanded and Revised, in a New Translation which left in me a strong impression. Those letters were not intended for me either. But the fact that Milena Jesenska had read them and replied to them confers to this correspondence a quality of communion that is entirely missing from the paternal letter. Kafka actually gave it to Milena later, in 1920, after the mother had returned it.




Hermann Kafka


Rather than a communion there is an open accusation to the father; the bitter repproach is mixed with an afflicted confession. It enacts the confrontation of two opposite personalities. The father, Hermann, originally from the petite bourgeoisie, had risen up in society thanks to his determination and strength of character. He is portrayed as tyrannical, proud, competitive, unsophisticated and rough. In contrast Kafka characterizes himself as a profoundly insecure, weak, timorous and also capable of malice and rancour.

In this distressing read I could not help thinking that this representation was not entirely convincing, or that I just could not empathize with it. I found a similar degree of self-centeredness in Franz, as deployed in his very legalistic text (he had studied law after all), as supposedly there had been in Hermann. For example, Franz censures his father for loading too much of his attention on him after his two brothers had died young. What about the sorrow for the loss that the father must have felt? I made a list of similar instances. I did feel for him, however, witnessing how much he agonized over his own self and particularly when he referred to his increasing physical weakness and to the first signs of blood in his lungs. TB carried him not long afterwards, in 1924, in his early forties.

This letter however, precisely for its confessional aspect and for the sophisticated language, is a necessary read for anyone interested in Kafka’s works. Themes of irrational authority, alienation of the individual, obsessive fears, disorienting perceptions, inability to control one’s life, debilitating restrictions, etc, have their seeds in this letter. All these “Kafkaesque” elements were certainly in Franz’s mind. We do not know if their source was Hermann. And as Franz recognized little of the Kafka traits in himself, the term “Kafkaesque” may not be the most appropriate to refer to his idiosyncrasies.

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Original Title:	Brief an den Vater
ISBN:	0805204261 (ISBN13: 9780805204261)
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لا يعلم معظم الآباء ما يحملهُ لهم أبناءهم من عواطف جياشة وتقديس لا حدود له يبدو الأب في نظر بعض الأبناء وكأنه نبي أو إله أو كائن أعلى قدوة كائن رهيب ومخيف أحياناً ..أنا أسأل مثل كافكا كيف يمكن لرجل وهو بكامل قواه العقلية أن يتحمل مثل هذه المسؤولية المخيفة أن يزرح تحت هذا الضغط الهائل أن ينظر له الطفل ذلك الكائن بسيط الشفاف وقد جاء لتوه ليتعرف على العالم على أنه الرجل الوحيد القادر على كل الأشياء أن يكون بهذه القسوة وهذا التزمت وكمصدر للرعب في داخل المنزل ..كيف للرجل ان يتحمل مسؤولية الأبوة

- "رسالة الى الوالد" من العنوان تستطيع تخمين المضمون فكافكا لم يقل حتى "والدي" بل تركه مجرداً وعارياً وهذا ما يتضح لاحقاً.- الرسالة موجعة جداً ولا بد من الأخذ بعين الإعتبار ان هذه الرسالة لم يكتبها وهو صغير بل حينما كان عمره 36 عاماًاي انه كان واعيا ومدركا لكل كلمة يكتبها ولم يكن يضخمها مثلما يفعل الأطفال والمراهقين عامةً.- كافكا مثال آخر لولادة الإبداع من المأساة فهذه العلاقة المعقدة مع والده المشحونة بكل المشاعر السلبية والتجاهل والسلطوية والإستفزازات المتبادلة اوصلت لنا هذا المبدع وهذا

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 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! Isnt it hard Franz, that the whole world

Gelirleriyle çocuklara kitap hediye edeceğim YouTube kanalımda Babaya Mektup kitabını yorumladım: https://youtu.be/QpmdwG4SHSYKafka'nın babasıyla olan ilişkisini, hatta ve hatta Dava, Şato ve Dönüşüm romanlarındaki bireyin toplum içi yabancılaşması ve ulaşılamayan kurumları anlamak için bu kitabı okumanız gerekir. Zira oğul Kafka'nın baba Kafka tarafından ezilmesi, Dönüşüm'de karşımıza bir böcek, Dava'da bulanık ve kasvetli bir arayış ve Şato'da sonuçsuz bir çıkmaz olarak çıkar.

احتمالا" همه کسانی که خرده حسابی با پدرشان دارند دراین کتاب وجهی اززندگی خویش رامی یابند.منهم در عنفوان جوانی خواندم وبه دلم بسیارنشست . البته رشته های مهروالفت میان من وپدر بیشتراز خرده حسابها بود که اگرهم بود جراتی نبود .امروز نقدی برفیلم به سوی ستارگان خواندم که ازاین کتاب هم مبسوط استفاده شده بود ..بقول ما آذریها ازآن شعر شعرکربلا یادم افتاد.

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 Franzs second attempt at marriage;