To Felice - Letters

If you want to understand the madness and the magic behind The Metamorphosis , you have to read Letters to Felice .

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"You are at once both the quiet and the confusion of my heart." — 1912. If you want to understand the madness and

"Writing is a deeper sleep, thus death. And just as one cannot and will not pull a dead person from their grave, neither can one pull me from the desk at night." And just as one cannot and will not

When we think of Kafka, we often think of alienation and the surreal. But in Letters to Felice , written between 1912 and 1917, we see a totally different side of the author: a man capable of astonishing gentleness and overwhelming sincerity. Here is what makes this collection so profound:

He doesn't hold back on his terror of intimacy or his profound anxiety, even famously writing a 47-page letter that functioned as a breakup.