“If you are to reproach me for anything, let it be my silence. For everything lies within that silence.” Franz Kafka’s Letter to His Father, written in 1919, is a brutally honest, deeply moving, and uniquely literary attempt by a son to come to terms with the overwhelming authority of his father. But this letter is more than a personal document—it is a psychological self-portrait, a testimony of inner conflict, and an existential outcry. Kafka vividly describes how his father’s dominant and inti ...