Kafka short biography

Bohemian writer (1883–1924)

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Franz Kafka^[b] (3 July 1883 – 3 June 1924) was an Austrian-Czech^[4] novelist and writer from Prague who wrote in German.

Kafka short biography

He is widely regarded as a major figure of 20th-century literature. His work fuses elements of realism and the fantastic,^[5] and typically features isolated protagonists facing bizarre or surrealistic predicaments and incomprehensible socio-bureaucratic powers.

It has been interpreted as exploring themes of alienation, existential anxiety, guilt, and absurdity.^[6] His best known works include the novella The Metamorphosis (1915) and the novels The Trial (1924) and The Castle (1926).

The term Kafkaesque has entered English to describe absurd situations like those depicted in his writing.

Kafka was born into a middle-class German- and Yiddish-speaking Czech Jewish family in Prague, the capital of the