Kafka e a escrita destinada ao pai: de uma Carta à letra

Abstract

At the age of thirty-six, time he already suffered with disease that would kill him, Franz Kafka writes a long letter to his father. Despite the fact it was never delivered, we know that this letter, a literary testimony, has kept its value for the writer, being posthumously published, like most of his work. In this epistle, Kafka focuses on conflicts with his father and mainly on the greatest impasse of his life, marriage. From this letter, whose destination was a message to the sender himself, we intend to follow the Czech author also in his works, diaries and extensive correspondence, into what reveals itself to be the function of the writing and the letter in a life which, in his own words, is merged with the literature, in search of an exit.