By

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Life and Work

Education

Employment

Literary Career

Writing Style

Publications

Death

Franz Kafka,

born 3 July 1883 in Prague

and died 3 June 1924 in Keirling

one of the most

influential German-language

novelists

the term "Kafkaesque" has

become part of the English

vernacular.

‘’huge, selfish,

overbearing

businessman’’described

his father as

Kafka's sisters were sent

to the Łódź Ghettoand

died there or in death

camps

Charles-Ferdinand

University

Kafka first studied

chemistry, but switched to

law

obtained the degree of

Doctor of Law

the Assicurazioni Generali, a

large Italian insurance

company

Worker's Accident

Insurance Institute for

the Kingdom of Bohemia

with his close friends Max

Brod and Felix Weltsch

Yiddish theatre

The Metamorphosis

The Trial

The Castle

Description of a Struggle

Contemplation

The Judgment

The Stoker

The Stoker

Blumfeld, an ElderlyBachelor

Kafka wrote to his friend and literary

executor Max Brod

‘’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, [is] to be burned unread’’

use of a characteristic

peculiar to the German

language

Kafka's sentences

unexpected impact just

before the full stop—that

being the finalizing

meaning and focus.

Especially The

Metamorphosis

Much of Kafka's

work was unfinished

The novels The

Castle, The Trial

and Amerika were

all prepared for

publication by Brod

Letters to Milena

In late 1919, she

took notice story, Der

Heizer (The Stoker)

by Kafka, and wrote

to him.

This was the

beginning of their

correspondence,

which would continue

until early 1923.

He died of tuberculosis in 1924

‘’I could not read this book, the human brain is not as extremely complex as it’’ by Einstein

‘’If you hear one day the need for confessional, not a cage Kafka's grave sin of the Catholic Church would prefer’’ by Oscar Wilde