Letters to Felice

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After Gregor sleeps for several hours, his sister, Grete, tries to bring him one of his favorite foods. He finds he no longer has an appetite for foods he once loved; he is more attracted to rotting food. Grete carefully handles any dishes she brings to or takes from Gregor’s room. 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):

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."Could Kafka have gained a reasonable amount of weight without inheriting an insatiable appetite like his father? La editorial Nórdica ha publicado un volumen realmente maravilloso y muy completo, a partir de una investigación concienzuda y seria en una edición de más de ochocientas páginas. Oh, there is a sad, sad reason for not doing so. To make it short: My health is only just good enough for myself alone, not good enough for marriage, let alone fatherhood. Yet when I read your letter, I feel I could overlook even what cannot possibly be overlooked. Why try to change people, Felice? It is not right. One has either to take people as they are, or leave them as they are. One cannot change them, one can merely disturb their balance." Lo que más me gusta de Kafka es las ganas que me hace venir de escribir. Pocos escritores lo consiguen. No se trata de que escriban bien. Nabokov y Dostoievski, otros de mis dos escritores favoritos, no me hacen venir ni el más débil deseo de escribir: todo lo contrario, me apabullan con su perfección y me convencen de que no vale la pena intentarlo. Pero no es que Kafka escriba mal. Por supuesto. Es por lo que cuenta y por la intensidad con la que lo hace.

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. 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 News of Bauer's marriage reached Kafka through his correspondence with a second lover, Milena, whose letters to Kafka have also been lost to history. An emaciated figure 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.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. Whether out of self-protective rationalization or mere pragmatism — the onset of tuberculosis was, after all, what ended the relationship five years later — he plaintively points to a physiological reason, almost as an excuse for the psychological: Kafka ha quedado hechizado de esta simple mujer con prácticamente pocos atributo. No importa: la atracción fue más y lo cautivó. These letters are indispensable for anyone seeking a more intimate knowledge of Kafka and his fragmented world."