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Franz Kafka

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Date of birth
1883-07-03
Place of birth
Praha
Date of death
1924-06-03
Place of death
Austria

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Franz Kafka (3 July 1883 – 3 June 1924) was a German-language Jewish Czech writer and novelist born in Prague, in the Austro-Hungarian Empire. Widely regarded as a major figure of 20th-century literature, his works fuse elements of realism and the fantastique, and typically feature isolated protagonists facing bizarre or surreal predicaments and incomprehensible socio-bureaucratic powers. The term Kafkaesque has entered the lexicon to describe situations like those depicted in his writings. His best-known works include the novella The Metamorphosis (1915) and the novels The Trial (1924) and The Castle (1926). He is also celebrated for his brief fables and aphorisms, which frequently incorporated comedic elements alongside the darker themes of his longer works. His work has widely influenced artists, philosophers, composers, filmmakers, literary historians, religious scholars, and cultural theorists, and his writings have been seen as prophetic or premonitory of a totalitarian future.

Kafka was born into a middle-class German- and Yiddish-speaking Czech Jewish family in Prague, the capital of the Kingdom of Bohemia, which belonged to the Austro-Hungarian Empire (later the capital of Czechoslovakia and the Czech Republic). He trained as a lawyer, and after completing his legal education was employed full-time in various legal and insurance jobs. His professional obligations led to internal conflict as he felt that his true vocation was writing. Only a minority of his works were published during his life; the story collections Contemplation (1912) and A Country Doctor (1919), and individual stories, such as his novella The Metamorphosis, were published in literary magazines, but they received little attention. He wrote hundreds of letters to family and close friends, including his father, with whom he had a strained and formal relationship. He became engaged to several women but never married. He died relatively unknown in 1924 of tuberculosis, aged 40. His friend and literary executor Max Brod ignored Kafka's wishes to destroy his remaining works, publishing them to eventual acclaim.

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Franz Kafka was a German-speaking Bohemian novelist and short-story writer.

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Editions

NameFormatISBNRelease Date
Das SchloßPaperback3-596-20900-51982-10
Die Verwandlung (white box cover, Oliver Jahraus afterword)Paperback978-3-15-009900-12019
Amerika (Fischer Bücherei, red beam)Paperback?1967-03
Die Verwandlung (manuscript cover)Paperback3-15-009900-52002
La metamorfosis y otros cuentosPaperback95003966612013
The Metamorphosis (Stanley Corngold translation and edit)Paperback9780393967975?
Briefe an MilenaPaperback978-3-596-25307-41986
Das SchloßHardcover3-353-00183-21987
Das Urteil und andere Erzählungen (fence cover)Paperback?1952-11
Journaux et lettres (coffret)Hardcover97820729834812022-05-12
Brief an den VaterPaperback978-3-596-21629-11981-08-01
Romans, nouvelles, récits (coffret)Hardcover97820727982072018-10-11
Der ProzeßPaperback3-596-20676-61980-02
Das Urteil und andere Erzählungen (archway cover)Paperback?1958-02
Die Verwandlung (white box cover, Egon Schwarz afterword)Paperback978-3-15-009900-12014
Der Proceß (Reclam UB, yellow cover with handwriting)Paperback978-3-15-009676-52011
Sämtliche Erzählungen (Franz Kafka, brown cover)Paperback?1970-01
Sämtliche Erzählungen (Franz Kafka, cover with drawing)Paperback3-596-21078-X1981-05
ПревращениеHardcover978-5-17-153567-42023-08
Erzählungen (Kafka / Brecht / Böll collection)Paperback?1970
Œuvres complètes, IVHardcover?1989-03-03
Œuvres complètes, IIHardcover20701097042006
Journaux et lettres (coffret)Hardcover97820729834812022-05-12
Romans, nouvelles, récits (coffret)Hardcover97820727982072018-10-11
Œuvres complètes, III : Journaux et lettres 1897–1914Hardcover97820728498622022-05-12
Œuvres complètes, IHardcover?1976-11-26
Œuvres complètes, IIHardcover?1980-04-24
Œuvres complètes, IIIHardcover?1984-10-23
Œuvres complètes, IHardcover20701079302005
Œuvres complètes, II : RomansHardcover97820701443272018-10-11
Œuvres complètes, IV : Journaux et lettres : 1914–1924Hardcover97820728498932022-05-12
Œuvres complètes, I : Nouvelles et récitsHardcover97820701443102018-10-11
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5223
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0000 0001 2280 370X
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Wikidata ID
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