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Familie

The third episode focuses on Kafka's despotic and domineering father Hermann, to whom his son writes a merciless letter of accusation of more than 100 pages, which he ultimately never sends. Gradually the focus shifts to Kafka's relationship with Zionism and his friendship with Yitzhak Löwy, an actor in a traditional Yiddish theater troupe. The confrontation between his father and his friend Löwy led Kafka to write "The Metamorphosis," the story of a man who turns into an insect, arguably the most influential literary work of the 20th century.

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