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Felice met Franz Kafka in Prague on 13 August 1912, when he visited his friend Max Brod and his wife. Brod's sister Sophie was married to a cousin of Felice's; Felice was in Prague on a trip to Budapest to visit her sister Else. [1]
Feb 5, 2015 · Five hundred of his letters survive and were posthumously published in the intensely rewarding and revelatory Letters to Felice (public library). In November of 1912, three months after he met Felice, Kafka writes:
Jun 1, 2024 · Four times engaged, never married. To his first fiancée, Felice, he was twice engaged. On the first occasion, Kafka wrote a letter to Felice’s father requesting the marriage be aborted.
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Jun 1, 2024 · In one of his letters, to his onetime fiancée Felice Bauer, Kafka expressed deflation at the modern experience of paging through a set of his own photographs, watching himself transform from a ...
Mar 5, 2015 · Prompted in large part by the dissolution of his engagement to Felice Bauer, in which Hermann’s active disapproval of the relationship was a toxic force and which resulted in the estrangement of father and son, 36-year-old Kafka set out to hold his father accountable for the emotional abuse, disorienting double standards, and constant ...
Feb 14, 2018 · He routinely wrote twice a day, and was troubled if Felice did not match his output. A pattern emerges by which, in one letter, he chastises her for neglecting him (“You’ve had enough of me; there is no other explanation”), only to seek forgiveness in the next (“Stay with me, don’t leave me”).
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After a tenacious struggle, their relationship twice culminated in an engagement (1914, 1917) – cancelled immediately on both occasions. Eighteen months after her final break-up with Kafka – brought on partly by the onset of his illness – Felice married a Berlin businessman by the name of Marasse.
