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Kafka: when the self talks to the self about the self.(Franz Kafka)(Brief Article)(Critical Essay)

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From: Alif: Journal of Comparative Poetics
Date: 20020101
Author:Massoud, Fatma

This article deals with the complicated relationship between Kafka and his father, portrayed in the famous letter to Hermann Kafka. The study starts with a theoretical briefing of the relationship between the autobiography and the literary letter. Then follows an elaborated analysis of the text highlighting the father-son crisis and vice versa, considering the factors which contributed to the portraying of the father's image as a monstrous, ruthless, and brutal authority--a theme which is central and repeatedly problematized in Kafka's literary work.

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