A letter by Franz Kafka in which the writer tells a friend he can no longer write is going up for auction 100 years after his death, with an estimate of up to $114,000. Kafka, one of the greatest writers of the 20th century, known for works such as The Trial and The Metamorphosis, wrote the letter to the Austrian poet and publisher Albert Erenstein in what is believed to be a response to a request to contribute to the literary magazine “Die Gefährten”. In the one-page letter, written in German and signed simply “Kafka,” the Prague-born novelist says he hasn’t written anything in three years. According to auction house Sotheby’s, the letter is believed to have been written between April and June 1920 from a sanatorium in Merano in northern Italy. Kafka was diagnosed with tuberculosis in 1917, which he makes no mention of in the letter. “When worries have penetrated into […]
Source: News Beast
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