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Franz Kafka

Also known as František Kafka, Kafka

Bohemian writer from Prague (1883–1924)

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Franz Kafka was a novelist, short story writer, diarist, and translator born in Prague on 3 July 1883. He was educated at Charles University and worked for Assicurazioni Generali. His notable works include The Metamorphosis, The Trial, The Castle, and Before the Law. He wrote in German and Czech and was associated with modernist literature and existentialism.

Kafka suffered from tuberculosis and died on 3 June 1924. His manner of death is listed as natural causes, with starvation cited as the cause. He was a vegetarian and buried in the New Jewish Cemetery. His writing spans genres such as modernism, belletristic literature, and flash fiction.

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Person · Open Library

Born: 3 July 1883
Died: 3 June 1924
Works: 1837

Top works

Briefe an Ottla und Die Familie. Auszüge
Heizer
Die Verwandlung / Η Μεταμόρφωση
Das Urteil Und Andere Erzahlungen
Schloß (Großdruck)

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Film & TV

Writing · Prague, Kingdom of Bohemia, Austria-Hungary

Franz Kafka was a German-speaking Jewish novelist and short story writer, widely regarded as one of the major figures of 20th-century literature. His work, which fuses elements of realism and the fantastic, typically features isolated protagonists faced by bizarre or surrealistic predicaments and incomprehensible social-bureaucratic powers, and has been interpreted as exploring themes of…

Known for

Kafka Goes to the Movies — self2002

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Music · MusicBrainz

Type: Person
Gender: Male
Origin: Czechoslovakia
Active from: 1883
Active to: 1924

audiobookhas german audiobooks

Discography

Der Prozess – Sven Regener liest Franz Kafka2016

Discogs

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Listeners · Last.fm

Listeners: 10,856
Total plays: 148,315

Recent publications · Crossref

5 total works indexed

G*Power 3: A flexible statistical power analysis program for the social, behavioral, and biomedical sciences
· 2007 · cited 54,672x
Statistical power analyses using G*Power 3.1: Tests for correlation and regression analyses
· 2009 · cited 31,402x
Global burden of 369 diseases and injuries in 204 countries and territories, 1990–2019: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2019
· 2020 · cited 15,951x
Global, regional, and national incidence, prevalence, and years lived with disability for 354 diseases and injuries for 195 countries and territories, 1990–2017: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2017
· 2018 · cited 10,995x
World Map of the Köppen-Geiger climate classification updated
· 2006 · cited 9,901x

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Quotes

“Verlassen sind wir doch wie verirrte Kinder im Walde. Wenn Du vor mir stehst und mich ansiehst, was weißt Du von den Schmerzen, die in mir sind und was weiß ich von den Deinen. Und wenn ich mich vor Dir niederwerfen würde und weinen und erzählen, was wüßtest Du von mir mehr als von der Hölle, wenn Dir jemand erzählt, sie ist heiß und fürchterlich. Schon darum sollten wir Menschen vor einander so ehrfürchtig, so nachdenklich, so liebend stehn wie vor dem Eingang zur Hölle.”
“Now the Sirens have a still more fatal weapon than their song, namely their silence... Someone might possibly have escaped from their singing; but from their silence, certainly never.”
“"The bliss of murder! The relief, the soaring ecstasy from the shedding of another’s blood! Wese, old nightbird, friend, alehouse crony, you are oozing away into the dark earth below the street. Why aren’t you simply a bladder of blood so that I could stamp on you and make you vanish into nothingness? Not all we want comes true, not all the dreams that blossomed have borne fruit, your solid remains lie here, already indifferent to every kick. What’s the good of the dumb question you are asking?"”
“Plenty of hope — for God — no end of hope — only not for us.”
“Als Gregor Samsa eines Morgens aus unruhigen Träumen erwachte, fand er sich in seinem Bett zu einem ungeheuren Ungeziefer verwandelt.”
“What a fate: to be condemned to work for a firm where the slightest negligence at once gave rise to the gravest suspicion! Were all the employees nothing but a bunch of scoundrels, was there not among them one single loyal devoted man who, had he wasted only an hour or so of the firm's time in the morning, was so tormented by conscience as to be driven out of his mind and actually incapable of leaving his bed?”

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Works in European collections

18 objects attributed to Franz Kafka, held across European museums, libraries & archives · via Europeana

The transformation

The Process

A hunger artist

Naplók, levelek

A nyolc oktávfüzet

Transformation

Per

Castle

America

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Encyclopedic overview

Franz Kafka (3 July 1883 – 3 June 1924) was a German-language Jewish Czech writer and novelist born in Prague, in the Austro-Hungarian Empire. Widely regarded as a major figure of 20th-century literature, his works fuse elements of realism and the fantastique, and typically feature isolated protagonists facing bizarre or surreal predicaments and incomprehensible socio-bureaucratic powers. The term Kafkaesque has entered the lexicon to describe situations like those depicted in his writings. His best-known works include the novella The Metamorphosis (1915) and the novels The Trial (1924) and The Castle (1926). He is also celebrated for his brief fables and aphorisms, which frequently incorporated comedic elements alongside the darker themes of his longer works. His work has widely influenced artists, philosophers, composers, filmmakers, literary historians, religious scholars, and cultural theorists.

Kafka was born into a middle-class German-speaking Czech Jewish family in Prague, the capital of the Kingdom of Bohemia, which belonged to the Austro-Hungarian Empire (later the capital of Czechoslovakia and the Czech Republic). He trained as a lawyer, and after completing his legal education was employed full-time in various legal and insurance jobs. His professional obligations led to internal conflict as he felt that his true vocation was writing. Only a minority of his works were published during his life; the story collections Contemplation (1912) and A Country Doctor (1919), and individual stories, such as his novella The Metamorphosis, were published in literary magazines, but they received little attention. He wrote hundreds of letters to family and close friends, including his father, with whom he had a strained and formal relationship. He became engaged to several women but never married. He died relatively unknown in 1924 of tuberculosis, aged 40. His literary executor and friend Max Brod ignored Kafka's wishes to destroy his remaining works, publishing them to eventual acclaim.

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