A letter giving a rare insight into Franz Kafka’s creative struggle is going up for auction.
A letter giving a rare insight into Franz Kafka’s struggle with writer’s block is going up for auction. Best-known for the 1915 novella “The Metamorphosis,” the Prague-born Jewish writer struggled throughout his short life with anxiety, hopelessness and isolation – themes that came to define his work – but little has been known about his creative process.
Ehrenstein made the request after seeing a newly published work by Kafka – probably the 1919 short story collection “Ein Landarzt” . “The life and works of Franz Kafka have long been a source of fascination throughout the world,” Sotheby’s Books & Manuscripts specialist Gabriel Heaton said in the release. “The letter reveals how writing made intense demands on him, and required deep reserves of inner strength, as he grappled with deep insecurity and worry about the futility of his work.
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