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.Last modified: 2020-10-11 (revision #32239)
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- Franz Kafka wrote Der neue Advokat
- Franz Kafka wrote Eine kleine Frau
- Franz Kafka wrote Kleine Fabel
- Franz Kafka wrote Der Prozess
- Franz Kafka wrote Erstes Leid
- Franz Kafka is the subject of Franz Kafka: Eine Biographie
- Franz Kafka wrote Der Nachhauseweg
- Franz Kafka wrote In der Loge
- Franz Kafka is the subject of The Anatomist of Power: Franz Kafka and the Critique of Authority
- Franz Kafka wrote Das Gassenfenster
- Franz Kafka wrote Der Kreisel
- Franz Kafka wrote Letters to Felice
- Franz Kafka wrote Elf Söhne
- Franz Kafka is the subject of Franz Kafka
- Franz Kafka is the subject of Φραντς Κάφκα: Ο ανατόμος της εξουσίας
- Franz Kafka wrote Fürsprecher
- Franz Kafka wrote Ein Landarzt
- Franz Kafka wrote Varianten
- Franz Kafka wrote Der Kübelreiter
- Franz Kafka wrote Ein altes Blatt
- Franz Kafka wrote Entschlüsse
- Franz Kafka wrote blurb for Erzählungen(Heinrich von Kleist)
- Franz Kafka wrote Unglücklichsein
- Franz Kafka wrote Der Gruftwächter
- Franz Kafka wrote Vor dem Gesetz
- Franz Kafka wrote Das Stadtwappen
- Franz Kafka wrote Ein Brudermord
- Franz Kafka wrote Das Schloß
- Franz Kafka is the subject of Kafka for Beginners
- Franz Kafka wrote Das nächste Dorf
- Franz Kafka is the subject of Das Symbol Kafka: Eine Studie über den Künstler
- Franz Kafka wrote Auf der Galerie
- Franz Kafka wrote Der Zimmernachbar
- Franz Kafka wrote Der Steuermann
- Franz Kafka wrote Превращение
- Franz Kafka wrote Der Fahrgast
- Franz Kafka is the subject of Franz Kafka, rêveur insoumis
- Franz Kafka is the subject of Franz Kafka: Tragik und Ironie; zur Struktur seiner Kunst
- Franz Kafka wrote Briefe an Felice
- Franz Kafka wrote Eine Kreuzung
- Franz Kafka is the subject of K: A Biography of Kafka
- Franz Kafka is the subject of Franz Kafkas Glauben und Lehre
- Franz Kafka wrote Großer Lärm
- Franz Kafka wrote Der Heizer
- Franz Kafka is the subject of Kafka kurz und knapp
- Franz Kafka is the subject of Verzweiflung und Erlösung im Werke Franz Kafkas
- Franz Kafka wrote Gibs auf!
- Franz Kafka is the subject of Kafka: Sein Leben, seine Welt, sein Werk
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