Letter to Dad

An intimate text. A long letter addressed to his father, Hermann Kafka. When authority is confused with tyranny: accusations, confessions, guilt, fear, submission, revolt.

The writing is direct and emotional in the way only a personal letter can be, protected by the certainty of privacy. 

«Dear Max, my last request: Everything I leave behind ... in the form of diaries, manuscripts, letters, sketches, and so on, must be burned without being read.» 

That is not what happened. 
Instead, it is said that "it is to Max Brod that we owe the salvation and publication of Kafka's work".

For me it is simpler. Max Brod betrayed the last wishes of his best friend. And we are the ones peeping through the keyhole. Against his will.

Franz Kafka (1883–1924), born in Prague, is one of the most influential writers of the 20th century. Author of works such as The Trial and The Metamorphosis, he explored alienation, bureaucracy, and the fragility of the human being in the face of power and guilt.