Franz Kafka
Franz Kafka, ; ; ; in Czech, he was sometimes called František Kafka.}} (3 July 1883 – 3 June 1924) was a novelist and writer from Prague. He wrote in German and is widely regarded as a major figure of 20th-century literature. His work fuses elements of realism and the fantastic. It 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. His best known works include the novella ''The Metamorphosis'' and novels ''The Trial'' and ''The Castle''. 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, then part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire (today the capital of Czechia, also known as the Czech Republic). He trained as a lawyer, and after completing his legal education was employed full-time, for a year handling cases for the indigent in the city's Provincial and Criminal Courts by an insurance company, then working for nine months for an Italian insurance company, and finally, starting in 1908, spending 14 years with the Austrian Imperial and Royal Workmen's Accident Institute for the Kingdom of Bohemia and its successor under the Czechoslovak Republic, rising to the position of chief legal secretary.
Being employed full-time forced Kafka to relegate writing to his spare time. Over the course of his life, Kafka 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 in obscurity in 1924 at the age of 40 from tuberculosis.
Kafka was a prolific writer, spending most of his free time writing, often late into the night. He burned an estimated 90 percent of his total work due to his persistent struggles with self-doubt. Much of the remaining 10 percent is lost or otherwise unpublished. Few of Kafka's works were published during his lifetime; although the story collections ''Contemplation'' and ''A Country Doctor'', and individual stories, such as his novella ''The Metamorphosis'', were published in literary magazines, they received little attention.
In his will, Kafka instructed his close friend and literary executor Max Brod to destroy his unfinished works, including his novels ''The Trial'', ''The Castle'', and , but Brod ignored these instructions and had much of his work published. Kafka's writings became famous in German-speaking countries after World War II, influencing German literature, and its influence spread elsewhere in the world in the 1960s. It has also influenced artists, composers, and philosophers. Provided by Wikipedia
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América / by Kafka, Franz, 1883-1924
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El proceso / by Kafka, Franz, 1883-1924
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La metamorfosis / by Kafka, Franz 1883-1924
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Carta al padre / by Kafka, Franz 1883-1924
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Blumfeld, un solterón ; la condena / by Kafka, Franz 1883-1924
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Cuentos / by Kafka, Franz 1883-1924
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América / by Kafka, Franz 1883-1924
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El castillo / by Kafka, Franz 1883-1924
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La metamorfosis / by Kafka, Franz, 1883-1924
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Informe para una academia / by Kafka, Franz, 1883-1924
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Informe para una academia y otros cuentos / Kafka ; selección de Eugenio Lynch. by Kafka, Franz, 1883-1924
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América / by Kafka, Franz, 1883-1924
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La carta al padre / by Kafka, Franz, 1883-1924
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Cartas a Felice y otra correspondencia de la época del noviazgo / by Kafka, Franz, 1883-1924
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Cartas a Milena / by Kafka, Franz, 1883-1924
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El castillo / by Kafka, Franz, 1883-1924
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El castillo / by Kafka, Franz, 1883-1924
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Contemplación / by Kafka, Franz, 1883-1924
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Conversación con el que reza. Conversación con el borracho / by Kafka, Franz, 1883-1924
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Diarios : 1910-1923 / by Kafka, Franz, 1883-1924
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