![]() ![]() ![]() He requested that Brod burn all but a few of his papers after his death. Knowing that he did not have long to live, he asked Max Brod to be his literary executor. He began work on his novel The Castle, but had to set it aside when his condition worsened. He also became involved with a married journalist named Milena Jesenska, in another epistolary relationship conducted primarily via letters. In 1920, as his health continued to fail, Kafka published the short story collection A Country Doctor. His father Hermann disapproved of his engagement to Wohryzková, prompting Kafka to write the missive now known as Letter to His Father, addressing their troubled relationship as father and son. He became engaged (briefly) to a woman named Julie Wohryzková. Over the next few years, Kafka underwent rotating bouts of illness and recovery in sanitoriums across Europe. His younger sister Ottilie took care of him. Kafka took a leave of absence from work while he recovered. Tuberculosis at that time was an incurable and often fatal disease. In August 1917, he began to cough up blood - the first signs of tuberculosis. ![]() Kafka's own body was about to betray him as well. It is a classic metaphor of alienation - a vivid image of how it's possible for a man to feel at odds with his home, his family, and even his body. The story of the salesman Gregor Samsa - who wakes up as a giant bug, is shunned, dies and is quickly forgotten - is Kafka's best-known work. In December 1915, Kafka published his only completed novella - Die Verwandlung or The Metamorphosis. ![]()
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