{"product_id":"letter-to-the-father-by-franz-kafka","title":"Letter to the Father by Franz Kafka","description":"\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eA son’s poignant letter to his father—from the author of The Metamorphosis and The Trial, and one of the most important writers of the twentieth century. • \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e“One of the great confessions of literature.” — The New York Times Book Review\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eFranz Kafka wrote this letter to his father, Hermann Kafka, in November 1919.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eMax Brod, Kafka’s literary executor, relates that Kafka actually gave the letter to his mother to hand to his father, hoping it might renew a relationship that had lost itself in tension and frustration on both sides.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eBut Kafka’s probing of the deep flaw in their relationship spared neither his father nor himself. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eHe could not help seeing the failure of communication between father and son as another moment in the larger existential predicament depicted in so much of his work.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eProbably realizing the futility of her son’s gesture, Julie Kafka did not deliver the letter but instead returned it to its author.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Urdu Kutub Khaana","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52919205036319,"sku":null,"price":299.0,"currency_code":"PKR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0857\/9029\/4303\/files\/66_9416c366-2e39-4d76-8b88-a3287dcea7d6.webp?v=1790193219","url":"https:\/\/urdukutubkhaana.com\/products\/letter-to-the-father-by-franz-kafka","provider":"Urdu Kutub Khaana","version":"1.0","type":"link"}