Kafka’s correspondence with Felice has all the earmarks of his fiction - the same nervous attention to minute particulars, the same paranoid awareness of shifting balances of power, the same atmosphere of emotional suffocation - combined, surprisingly enough, with moments of boyish ardour and delight."  -   Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times Bulgarian novelist Elias Canetti wrote about the correspondence in Kafka's Other Trial: The Letters to Felice. Through a reading of the letters along with sections of The Trial Canetti examined Kafka's struggle between a comfortable middle-class life and individual isolation. Kafka αναφέρεται αδιάκοπα και φαίνεται πως αισθανόταν πως υπήρχαν δυνάμεις που του υπαγόρευαν τα όσα έγραφε. Δεν ξέρω αν όλα αυτά τα εννοούσε συμβολικά ή αν πίστευε πως υπάρχουν ως ανεξάρτητες οντότητες, κάτι παρόμοιο με τους μεσαιωνικούς δαίμονες. Άλλωστε η ιδέα που έχει για τον εσωτερικό Πύργο της Βαβέλ του υποδεικνύει πως το ίδιο γεγονός μπορεί να ερμηνευθεί με διαφορετικούς τρόπους, μπορεί να υπάρχει σε διαφορετικά επίπεδα και να παίρνει την ανάλογη μορφή. Then, on December 23, he wrote to express his exasperation with a friend of Bauer's who seemingly failed to grasp the difficulty of writing, as evidenced by her curt response. It appeared that Bauer had tacitly shared her friend's sentiments on it. Para que lo sepas, mi amor, pienso en ti con tanto amor y devoción como si Dios te hubiera confiado a mí con las más inequívocas palabras."

Kafka ορισμένες φορές έχανε τον έλεγχο των συναισθημάτων του, στην προκειμένη περίπτωση είναι η επιτηδευμένη σοβαροφάνεια του εργασιακού του περιβάλλοντος αυτή που πυροδοτεί την έκρηξή του: If we value our lives, let us abandon it all… I am forever fettered to myself, that’s what I am, and that’s what I must try to live with. Grete Bloch - με την οποία παρεμπιπτόντως ο Kafka διέπραξε επιστολική απιστία απέναντι στη Felice, κάτι το οποίο οδήγησε στα γεγονότα του Askanischer Hof hotel, εκεί όπου οι δύο γυναίκες τον συνάντησαν και του κατέβασαν καντήλια και επτάφωτες λυχνίες - 8 Ιουνίου 1914) αναφέρει: Despite the relatively short distance between Prague and Berlin, Kafka and Bauer would meet only a handful of times, become engaged twice and never marry. But their correspondence of hundreds of letters – which finished when Kafka wrote the last letter in 1917 and only came to the world’s attention in 1955, when Bauer sold his letters to her – is one of the most poignant chronicles of the human urge to share ourselves, while foregoing the vulnerability that such intimacy creates. Nothing unites two people so completely, especially if, like you and me, all they have is words Kafka, in a 1912 letter to Bauer These letters give you a little more insight to the man behind the mad genius. Maybe even more so than his private journals, which tend to swerve between mundane recitings of his day and outright kooky insane quips.Naturalmente, a ambos compromisos les corresponderá una ruptura, el 12 de julio de 1914 en el "juicio del hotel Askanischer Hof", como Kafka lo definiera oportunamente y el otro en esa Navidad indicada anteriormente. Franz Kafka (right) with Max Brod's younger brother, Otto, at the Castel Toblino near Trento, 1909. I actually think, counterintuitively, Kafka would make an excellent partner. He gives great credit to Felice's intelligence, wit, and education, and above all else sees her as an equal in every way (and bear in mind, these letters were written in the early 1910s, where that certainly wasn't a default). He's constantly concerned with her well-being and places her happiness above his at all times. urn:lcp:letterstofelice0000kafk:epub:b7dcb6d1-645c-4a23-b594-6b554fa88fca Foldoutcount 0 Identifier letterstofelice0000kafk Identifier-ark ark:/13960/s2kwf8dzg3c Invoice 1652 Lccn 72088262 //r832 Ocr tesseract 5.2.0-1-gc42a Ocr_detected_lang en Ocr_detected_lang_conf 1.0000 Ocr_detected_script Latin Ocr_detected_script_conf 0.9957 Ocr_module_version 0.0.18 Ocr_parameters -l eng+deu Old_pallet IA402412 Openlibrary_edition

Prague-born writer Franz Kafka wrote in German, and his stories, such as " The Metamorphosis" (1916), and posthumously published novels, including The Trial (1925), concern troubled individuals in a nightmarishly impersonal world.

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The more than five hundred letters Kafka wrote to Felice - through their breakup, a second engagement in 1917, and their final parting in the fall of that year, when Kafka began to feel the effects of tuberculosis that would eventually claim his life -  reveal the full measure of his inner turmoil as he tried, in vain, to balance his desire for human connection with what he felt were the solitary demands of his craft.

Jewish middle-class family of this major fiction writer of the 20th century spoke German. People consider his unique body of much incomplete writing, mainly published posthumously, among the most influential in European literature. Two days later, on December 13, he again referred to his book, "I am so happy that my book, no matter how much I find fault with it, is now in your possession." 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.

Gregor has significantly weakened by the final chapter of the novella. His family sinks deeper into despair; his father wears his uniform constantly, ready to go to work at any given moment, while his mother has to sew clothes, and his sister works as a sales clerk. The family begins to sell off their valuables to supplement their meager incomes. They even want to move to a smaller, cheaper apartment, but they cannot think about relocating Gregor. Milena Jesenská, Πράγα, τέλη Μαρτίου 1922, συνδέει τα φαντάσματα - δαίμονες με την επιστολογραφία και κατ' επέκταση με όλες αυτές τις χάρτινες σχέσεις τις οποίες αδυνατούσε να διαχειριστεί στον πραγματικό κόσμο (αυτόν τον οποίο αντιπροσωπεύει η Felice): lodgers rents a room in the apartment, and though it is the Samsa household, the family retreats to the kitchen for meals and allows the men the run of the house. When Grete plays violin one evening, and Gregor is drawn to the music, the lodgers spot him for the first time. They refuse to pay any rent and threaten to press charges against Mr. Samsa.