"One is an intimate portrayal of Kafka’s mother, who wears her hair in a high bun and dons small, oval-shaped spectacles. Another ink drawing titled Drinker shows an irate-looking man slumped in front of a glass of wine.... Among the newly digitized papers is a scathing, 47-page letter to [his father] Herman; never delivered, it describes Kafka as a 'timid child' who cannot have been 'particularly difficult to manage.... I cannot believe that a kindly word, a quiet taking by the hand, a friendly look, could not have got me to do anything that was wanted of me.'"
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Temujin writes:
"Wow. He could draw as well.
"Interesting that he spent a lot of time teaching himself Hebrew and in his last year(s) wanted to move to what was then Palestine to open a restaurant. That was in 1924, the year in which he later died in Prague. History would have been interesting had he lived, moved, and opened a restaurant in Palestine in 1924. Perhaps produced a cookbook. Imagine Kafka's cookbook."
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