Franz Kafka, podcaster
Franz Kafka, podcaster Print this article Of the many torments that Franz Kafka suffered throughout his all-too-brief life — depression, anxiety, insomnia, suicidal ideation — none looms larger than his tortured relationship with his father. It lies at the center of several of his greatest works, including The Judgment and The Metamorphosis, and lurks as a menacing presence in many others. Kafka lived with his father, Hermann, along with his mother and three sisters, in a cramped Prague apartment well into his adulthood. It was bad enough that he regarded himself as an irredeemable dis...