Letters to Felice

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I was left alone in the room and was seized with such longing for you that all I wanted to do was lay my head on the table for some kind of support On 13 August 1912, a summer evening in Prague, a young Franz Kafka was gathering up his manuscripts to take to the house of his friend, Max Brod. His excursion to the Brods’ home late in the evening was not unusual, but this was an unusual night, for two momentous reasons: Kafka was about to send off what would be one of his first works to be published, and that evening he would meet the woman who would dominate his romantic imagination for the next five years.

Kafka διαγιγνώσκεται με φυματίωση η σχέση τους τελειώνει - ευτυχώς για εκείνη, δυστυχώς για εκείνον. Νομίζω πως χάνοντάς την, χάνει τη μοναδική ευκαιρία σωτηρίας που είχε. Υπηρξε για εκείνον αναντικατάστατη. I was also fond of his relationship with his youngest and favorite sister (he had three), Ottilie (who, sadly, was later murdered in the Holocaust). He would be the sweetest brother.

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Book Genre: 20th Century, Autobiography, Biography, Classics, European Literature, German Literature, Literature, Memoir, Nonfiction, Reference, Romance

Por otro lado, la idea de convivir con una esposa lo aterra. Íntimamente ella lo sabe y seguramente se habrá dado cuenta que nunca iba a funcionar. Es claro, ella quiere vivir con él en Berlín mientras que él prefiere establecerse en Praga y vivir de la literatura. Es más, juntos averiguan distintos apartamentos y casas para alquilar pero nunca llegan a zanjar la cuestión.Mañana me pondré a escribir de nuevo, con todas mis fuerzas, cuando no escribo siento como si una mano inflexible me arrojara de la vida a empujones." Whether out of self-protective rationalization or mere pragmatism — the onset of tuberculosis was, after all, what ended the relationship five years later — he plaintively points to a physiological reason, almost as an excuse for the psychological: