Kafka, Franz.

Autograph letter signed ("Franz"), to his friend Max Brod, who is recovering from influenza



enquiring good-humouredly after his friend's health, stating that during his own illness he was like a 'guarantee of life' for him ("...Während meines Fiebers warst Du mir etwas wie die Bürgschaft des Lebens..."), explaining that, if necessary, he would be able to take care of him at his own home, and quite good care too, since he has some experience in being looked after, and wondering whether he is already back at the Jewish National Council; on the verso of the letter, Kafka provides the following correspondence address:  'Dr Kafka [/] Pension Stüdl [/] Schelesen [/] b[ei] Liboch'



...Leider spricht manches dagegen Dich hierher einzuladen, aber zur Not ginge es doch und ich würde Dich nicht schlecht pflegen, da ich doch Erfahrungen im Gepflegtwerden habe...



2 pages, 90 x 140mm., on a postcard, one sentence underlined in pink crayon, some later pencil annotations, postmarked Liboch, 17 December 1918

Franz Kafka. Briefe 1902-1924, pp.248-249

A delightfully good-humoured letter of Kafka, full of heartfelt sympathy for the well-being of his biographer, friend and literary executor.