Question

When writer Franz Kafka described someone as true to their lineage in "strength, health, appetite, loudness of voice, eloquence, self-satisfaction, worldly dominance, endurance, presence of mind, [and] knowledge of human nature", of whom was he speaking?

Answer 1

His father
Kafka (1883 – 1924) from Prague, the capital at the time of the Kingdom of Bohemia (later the Czech Republic), had a troubled relationship with his father, evident in his "Brief an den Vater" (Letter to His Father) of more than 100 pages, in which he complains of being profoundly affected by his father's authoritarian and demanding character.