Letter to friend and publisher Albert Ehrenstein, to be auctioned in June, details struggle to write at time of tuberculosis diagnosis
The letter, signed ‘Kafka’, is believed to have been written between April and June 1920, when the author was being treated for tuberculosis at a clinic in northern Italy.The letter, signed ‘Kafka’, is believed to have been written between April and June 1920, when the author was being treated for tuberculosis at a clinic in northern Italy.to his publisher shows just how anguished a struggle it was for the Bohemian writer to put pen to paper, especially as his health deteriorated.
Undated, the letter is believed by scholars to have been written between April and June 1920, when Kafka was being treated for his illness at a clinic in Merano, northern Italy. Writer’s block famously haunted Kafka throughout his life but was exacerbated by his poor physical condition. “To have, of all writers, Kafka talking to us about writer’s block is particularly poignant and meaningful,” Heaton said. “He’s almost like the laureate of writer’s block, as we see from his diaries.”
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