In 1924, Franz Kafka wanted to be die forgotten. For 14 years, Kafka worked at an insurance company in Prague: processing accident claims by day, writing in secret by night. His double life was exhausting, his writing career an abject failure. In 1912, Kafka met Felice Bauer at his friend Max Brod’s home in Prague. She lived in Berlin. He fell for her. Hard. Over the next five years, Kafka wrote her more than 500 letters-sometimes twice in a single day. They became engaged in 1914. She broke it