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Kafka left his work, both published and unpublished, to his friend and literary executor Max Brod with explicit instructions that it should be destroyed on Kafka's death; Kafka wrote: "Dearest Max, my last request: Everything I leave behind me ... in the way of diaries, manuscripts, letters (my own and others'), sketches, and so on ...
Sep 19, 2024 · Quick Facts. Born: July 3, 1883, Prague, Bohemia, Austria-Hungary [now in Czech Republic] Died: June 3, 1924, Kierling, near Vienna, Austria (aged 40) Notable Works: “Amerika”. “Description of a Struggle”. “In the Penal Colony”.
May 23, 2024 · Competing claims began to swirl almost as soon as Kafka died of tuberculosis, 100 years ago this June, a month short of his 41st birthday.
Sep 22, 2010 · During his lifetime, Franz Kafka burned an estimated 90 percent of his work. After his death at age 41, in 1924, a letter was discovered in his desk in Prague, addressed to his friend Max Brod.
Apr 2, 2014 · Franz's two younger brothers, Georg and Heinrich, died in infancy by the time Kafka was six, leaving the boy the only son in a family that included three daughters (all of whom would later die in...
Apr 2, 2020 · Died: June 3, 1924 in Kierling, Austria. Education: Deutsche Karl-Ferdinands-Universität of Prague.
May 29, 2024 · Franz Kafka is one of the best-known German-language authors in the world, even though he has been dead for 100 years. So why is he still so popular today?
