“The father”

Kafka

Father of Franz Kafka, born into a poor family. At the age of thirty he marries the daughter of the wealthy brewer Julie Löwy and opens a wholesale fabric shop. The couple has six children, but two die as infants.

He is the predominant and conflicting figure in the life of the Prague writer, who describes him as a tyrannical, immovable and incomprehensible man, with the power to accentuate all his fears. He feels treated with contempt, arrogance and arrogance by his father. Emblematic in this sense is the Letter to the Father, written in 1919, never delivered to the parent and published posthumously. An indictment against the authoritarian education received.

Letter to his father

“The feeling of nothingness that often overwhelms me… is in many ways generated by your influence”