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There are texts that we read and that leave a mark on us, and then there are those that dispossess us. Franz Kafka's Letter to His Father is one of the latter.<p> When I discovered him as a teenager, I felt as if I were hearing my own voice, reading a letter I could have written, perhaps had already written, in silence. In his words, I recognized a pain that resonated with my own, a familiar inner struggle, an unfinished battle. His father bore a striking resemblance to mine. I already knew his powerlessness in the face of his father's influence.</p><p> In this text, Franz Kafka analyzes with surgical precision the deep-seated mechanisms of paternal domination, but also his own contradictions, navigating between submission and revolt, between accusation and justification. But beyond the tragic, there is also a biting irony: that of a son crushed by a father who, in his intransigence, becomes almost grotesque.</p><p> To perform this letter today is to resume this impossible dialogue, to give it voice, to confront it with the silence that has stifled it. It is to give substance to Kafka's words and, through them, to this universal attempt to break free from a shadow that has shaped us. Franz Kafka's Letter to His Father is not only the story of a man facing his father, but also the story of each individual facing their inheritances, their constraints, their need for emancipation. A mirror in which each of us can recognize our own quest for legitimacy.</p>