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A review by coeurdesamurai
Letter to my Father by Howard Colyer, Franz Kafka
emotional
reflective
3.0
I need to find the person on Twitter who said it's weird to give classics bad ratings. They were right.
I've been wanting to read this for a while. I thought it was gonna cure my daddy issues but I'm the first one surprised at how numb I was while reading this book.
This is a deeply intimate letter that the receiver never got to read, that Kafka didn't want to share, and that we shouldn't be reading either. It was uncomfortable to dive deep into Kafka's traumas and emotional turmoil, the complexities of his relationship with his father, and the abuse he suffered from him. It was a long rumble of many sour experiences that happened to him and how he explained he didn't blame his father for the mess he became as an adult while actively blaming him.
I will say the letter helped me understand his work better (i.e. my incomprehension of The Metamorphosis). So unless you're researching Kafka's life and his work academically, I don't think you should be reading this for enjoyment purposes.
I've been wanting to read this for a while. I thought it was gonna cure my daddy issues but I'm the first one surprised at how numb I was while reading this book.
This is a deeply intimate letter that the receiver never got to read, that Kafka didn't want to share, and that we shouldn't be reading either. It was uncomfortable to dive deep into Kafka's traumas and emotional turmoil, the complexities of his relationship with his father, and the abuse he suffered from him. It was a long rumble of many sour experiences that happened to him and how he explained he didn't blame his father for the mess he became as an adult while actively blaming him.
I will say the letter helped me understand his work better (i.e. my incomprehension of The Metamorphosis). So unless you're researching Kafka's life and his work academically, I don't think you should be reading this for enjoyment purposes.