Franz Kafka, 1883-1924. Kafka was an Austrian writer whose stories, such as "The Metamorphosis", and novels, including The Trial and The Castle, concern troubled individuals in a nightmarishly impersonal world -- a major theme of Existentialism and reality.
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existentialism and Franz Kafkadied June 3, 1924, Kierling, Austria
I think we ought to read only the kind of books that wound and stab us...We need the kind of books that affect us like a disaster, that grieve us deeply, like the death of someone we loved more than ourselves, like being banished into forests far from everyone, like a suicide. A book must be the axe for the frozen sea inside us. --Franz Kafka |
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The credit for making Franz Kafka internationally famous as a writer of visionary and imaginative fiction belongs to his friend, novelist Max Brod. In Kafka's will, Brod was asked to burn all unpublished manuscripts and to refrain from republishing those already in print. Brod instead edited the manuscripts and had them published. Kafka was born into a Jewish middle-class family in Prague, Bohemia (now in the Czech Republic), on July 3, 1883. At the University of Prague he received his doctorate in 1906. |
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