Kafka: Letter to his father

The letter Franz Kafka "wrote" to his father is a crucial moment in his work - and probably in his life too. It is essential to read it if on wants to understand the rest of his writings, in which the father to son relationship plays a prominent part. In this letter we discover a person devastated by a too severe education coming from father who never let him be himself. But then again without this father, Kafka would not have been who he was, and who knows, he might never have become a writer. This letter lets us discover this relationship, made of ambivalent and contradictory feelings, a letter which Kafka's father never got to read.