Franz Kafka is one of the best-known German-language ... his family and suffered throughout his life at the hands of his father in particular, who would have preferred his son to be a businessman ...

and the literal big father, Mr. Hermann Kafka, who made so much noise in the family apartment that it drove Franz into fits of rage-which only fueled the desperation we see on display so ...

Manuscript of Franz Kafka’s “Letter to his Father,” 1919, National Library of Israel, Jerusalem. Photo: Ardon Bar-Hama. As in most assimilated European Jewish families in the early twentieth century, ...

Kafka’s father, Hermann, had been running his shop and warehouses on the ground floor of the House of the Three Kings (sometimes called U Tří královen (House of the Three Queens)) since 1887. It still ...