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Franz Kafka [b] (3 July 1883 – 3 June 1924) was a German-language novelist and writer from Prague. He is widely regarded as one of the major figures of 20th-century literature. His work fuses elements of realism and the fantastic. [4]
4 days ago · Franz Kafka, German-language writer of visionary fiction whose works, especially The Trial and The Metamorphosis, express the anxieties and the alienation felt by many in 20th-century Europe and North America.
Apr 2, 2014 · Author Franz Kafka explored the human struggle for understanding and security in his novels such as 'Amerika,' 'The Trial' and 'The Castle.'
Franz Kafka (1883-1924) has been called everything from a modernist to an existentialist, a fantasy writer to a realist. His work almost stands alone as its own subgenre, and the adjective ‘Kafkaesque’ – whose meaning, like the meaning of Kafka’s work, is hard to pin down – has become well-known even to people who have never read a ...
Franz Kafka, (born July 3, 1883, Prague, Bohemia, Austria-Hungary—died June 3, 1924, Kierling, near Vienna, Austria), Czech writer who wrote in German. Born into a middle-class Jewish family, he earned a doctorate and then worked successfully but unhappily at a government insurance office from 1907 until he was forced by a case of ...
Prague-born writer Franz Kafka wrote in German, and his stories, such as The Metamorphosis (1916), and posthumously published novels, including The Tri...
Apr 2, 2020 · Franz Kafka (July 3, 1883 – June 3, 1924) was a Czech novelist and short-story writer, widely considered one of the most important literary figures of the 20th century. Kafka was a natural writer, though he worked as a lawyer, and his literary merit went largely unrecognized during his short lifetime.
The Metamorphosis. by Franz Kafka. Translation by Ian Johnston. One morning, as Gregor Samsa was waking up from anxious dreams, he discovered that in bed he had been changed into a monstrous verminous bug.
1 day ago · Kafka learned German as his first language, but he was also almost fluent in Czech. Later, Kafka also acquired some knowledge of French language and culture; one of his favorite authors was Flaubert.
1 day ago · Franz Kafka's writings have long been analysed and debated in the academic world, in search of a definitive meaning, through a plethora of interpretations. This, along with the complex nature of the works themselves, have made Kafka's literature mostly the realm of the academic Intelligentsia and consequently somewhat intellectually ...
