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Letter to His Father

Franz Kafka

  • 100 pages · about 2 hours
  • First published 1952
  • 37 editions
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1 About this book

Letter to His Father (German: Brief an den Vater) is the name usually given to the letter Franz Kafka wrote to his father Hermann in November 1919, indicting him for his emotionally abusive and hypocritical behavior towards him.

Good for readers who want: a true life story and a short read.

  • Biography
  • Correspondence
  • Austrian Authors
  • Germanic literature

2 About Franz Kafka

1883–1924

Franz Kafka (3 July 1883 – 3 June 1924) was a German-language Jewish writer from Prague. Widely regarded as a major figure of 20th-century literature, his works fuse elements of realism and the fantastique, and typically feature isolated protagonists facing bizarre or surreal predicaments and incomprehensible bureaucratic powers. The term Kafkaesque has entered the lexicon to describe situations like those depicted in his writings.

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