Spotlight on a Famous Author: Franz Kafka

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Spotlight on a Famous Author

Franz Kafka

Short Biography

Franz Kafka was born on July 3, 1883 to a Jewish middle-class family in Prague (presently, the capital of the Czech Republic), Austria-Hungary. He is best known for his surreal, often disturbing, symbolic fiction. His father was a merchant, but he often neglects his son most of the time. Kafka lived most of his life with his family, was engaged twice but never married & had an uneasy relationship with a German woman named Felice Bauer. Kafka studied law in the University of Prague. He then took a civil service post, but he wrote in his spare time. Later on, in 1917, Kafka contracted tuberculosis. A depressed and lonely man, he died in Austria in June 3, 1924.

His Works

The Metamorphosis

Probably Franz Kafka's most famous work, it's about a man who, after he has woken up in his bed, suddenly found out he was transformed into a gigantic insect (or cockroach, or beetle, or spider). As the story progresses, his family slowly neglects him since that he is unable to provide them because he is now a bug.

The Trial

Another one of Franz Kafka's famous works, its about what will happened if a man was arrested & the nature of his crime being unknown. It has lots of unreliable characters & it ends with, well, the novel wasn't completed & we'll never know what actually happened to the man.

The Castle

Yet another famous Kafka work, it is about a man, mysteriously named K, who travels to a village governed by "the Castle", an extremely bureaucratic organization where complaints are sent through forms. It's a satire on bureaucracy & the abuse of power.

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