literature – NEUROCIÊNCIAS EM DEBATE

2018 Neurociências e Artes

Letter to His Father by Franz Kafka: Literary Reconstruction of a Traumatic Childhood?

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This essay considers Letter to His Father in the light of current knowledge about autobiographical memory. The essay first sets forth basic aspects of Kafka’s life in order to place Letter to His Fatherin the context of Kafka’s biography, and then presents Kafka’s relevance to the literature and thought of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries.

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