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In his own version of Kafka's Letter to Father, Bernard Marin reflects on fatherhood: his own experience as the son of a distant and angry father, and as a loving father himself. Recalling his father's gambling, his anger, his indifference, Bernard is surprised to discover happiness in the time he spent with his father at their nursery, surrounded by plants. Both men were called upon to fight, but the outcomes were very different. Ultimately Bernard...
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Bernard Marin, a successful Jewish accountant, was almost fifty when he was suddenly, struck down by crippling headaches. The problem, however, was not just physical. Bernard's distress was the result of years of denial over his poor relationship with his father, who had died fourteen years before.
Stan Marin had told his son nothing of his life; indeed, he had barely seemed to notice his son's existence. When his father died, Bernard had felt only...
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