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In a review of a 2012 edition of facsimiles of the Zürau Aphorisms, Friedmann Apel sees wording similar to the later novel The Castle, which seems often to be addressing Kafka's father. He quotes the aphorism printed first in Brod's book: "Der wahre Weg geht über ein Seil, das nicht in der Höhe gespannt ist, sondern knapp über dem Boden.
Translated from the German by Karen Reppin. Illustrated with drawings by Franz Kafka and including an afterword on the creation and impact of the text. Vitalis Verlag, Prague 2016. ISBN 978-80-7253-344-2. The following collections include Kafka's Letter to His Father (Kaiser and Wilkins translation): Dearest Father. Stories and Other Writings ...
The diaries of Franz Kafka, written between 1910 and 1923, include casual observations, details of daily life, reflections on philosophical ideas, accounts of dreams, and ideas for stories. Kafka’s diaries offer a detailed view of the writer's thoughts and feelings, as well as some of his most famous and quotable statements.
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Kafka was born near the Old Town Square in Prague, then part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire.His family were German-speaking middle-class Ashkenazi Jews.His father, Hermann Kafka (1854–1931), was the fourth child of Jakob Kafka, [11] [12] a shochet or ritual slaughterer in Osek, a Czech village with a large Jewish population located near Strakonice in southern Bohemia. [13]
Letters to Milena is a book collecting some of Franz Kafka's letters to Milena Jesenská from 1920 to 1923. The English translation of the letters states, "Whereas Kafka generally wrote to Milena in German, most of her letters were in her mother tongue" of Czech (p. xvii).
The title derives from Kafka's Letter to His Father, which begins with this salutation. [2] In 2007, a translation by Howard Colyer, titled Letter to My Father , was published by lulu.com. [ 3 ] A translation of Dearest Father , with notes and an introduction by its translators, Hannah and Richard Stokes, was published in 2008.