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Franz Kafka (1883-1924)
Franz Kafka was born in Prague, 13th July 1883, into a family of German Jews. The family was of German culture but as they belonged to the Ghetto, they were excluded from relationships with the German minority in Prague. Franz Kafka’s father ruled the family with great Authority. “Faced with intolerance and the tyranny of my parents, I live with my family more as a stranger than a foreigner” he writes, and, in fact, he was doubly aware of feeling a foreigner, within his family and in his own City (Fig. 1).
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In 1901, after having attended the Chemistry Course for two weeks and that of Germanic studies for six months, he decided to transfer to the Faculty of Law, considered to be less exacting, and which allowed him to find a job and to start his writing. He gained his degree at the German University, in Prague, on 18th June, l906. It was at about that time that the early signs of lung tuberculosis became apparent which eventually led to his early death at just 41 years old.
Two years after gaining his degree, he was off
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Franz Kafka
Bohemian writer (1883–1924)
"Kafka" redirects here. For other uses, see Kafka (disambiguation).
Franz Kafka[b] (3 July 1883 – 3 June 1924) was a Jewish Austrian-Czech[4] novelist and writer from Prague who wrote in German. He is widely regarded as a major figure of 20th-century literature. His work fuses elements of realism and the fantastic,[5] and typically features isolated protagonists facing bizarre or surrealistic predicaments and incomprehensible socio-bureaucratic powers. It has been interpreted as exploring themes of alienation, existential anxiety, guilt, and absurdity.[6] His best known works include the novella The Metamorphosis (1915) and the novels The Trial (1924) and The Castle (1926). The term Kafkaesque has entered English to describe absurd situations like those depicted in his writing.
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 Austrian part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire (today
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(1883-1924) Czech author, a Jew who wrote in German, active for about a decade before 1914; he was a full tri-cultural inhabitant – a German-speaking Jew in Prague – of the cosmopolitan world that would eventually become Czechoslovakia (see Czech and Slovak SF) after the trauma of World War One, a civilization whose death throes began in 1938. Belying any sense that his outer life slavishly mirrored his inner transactions with the twentieth century, the insurance company where he was employed for most of his life successfully applied for his exemption from active service during the war, on the grounds that he was indispensable. A significant proportion of Kafka's work had already been written well before 1912, the first of the seven titles he himself published being Betrachtung ["Contemplation"] (coll 1912; trans with additions as Contemplation & Other Stories1992) [see Checklist below], and he continued to participate in the Prague world, though none of the three novels that preoccupied him for the last de
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