Franz Kafka
Franz Kafka 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.
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Background
- Born in
- Prague
- Educated at
- Charles UniversityGerman University in Prague
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Trending topics shown first"May I kiss you then? On this miserable paper? I might as well open the window and kiss the night air."
"Yours(now I'm even losing my name - it was getting shorter and shorter all the time and is now: Yours)"
"All I am is literature, and I am not able or willing to be anything else."
"There's no quiet place here on earth for our love, not in the village and not anywhere else, so I picture a grave, deep and narrow, in which we embrace as if clamped together, I bury my face against y…"
"We too must suffer all the suffering around us. We all have not one body, but we have one way of growing, and this leads us through all anguish, whether in this or in that form. Just as the child deve…"
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Timeline
1894
Born
Birth1924
Died
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