Letter to the Father By Franz KafkaFranz Kafka wrote this letter to his father, Hermann Kafka, in November 1919. Max Brod, Kafkas literary executor, relates that Kafka actually gave the letter to his mother to hand to his father, hoping it might renew a relationship that had lost itself in tension and frustration on both sides. But Kafkas probing of the deep flaw in their relationship spared neither his father nor himself. He could not help seeing the failure of communication between