Franz Kafka
Channel: 宇宙のすべての知識 プリンシピア
Date: 05/02/2019

Franz Kafka, by Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=10858 / CC BY SA 3.0

#Franz_Kafka
#1883_births
#1924_deaths
#19th-century_Austrian_people
#20th-century_Austrian_writers
#20th-century_Austrian_novelists
#Ashkenazi_Jews
#Bohemian_people
#Male_novelists
#Austrian_male_writers
Franz Kafka

Franz Kafka (3 July 1883 – 3 June 1924) was a German-speaking Bohemian 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 alienation, existential anxiety, guilt, and absurdity. His best known works include "" ("The Metamorphosis"), ("The Trial"), and ("The Castle"). The term "" has entered the English language to describe situations like those in his writing.

Kafka was born into a middle-class, German-speaking Jewish family in Prague, the capital of the Kingdom of Bohemia, then part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, today the capital of the Czech Republic. He trained as a lawyer, and after completing his legal education he was employed by an insurance company, forcing him to relegate writing to his spare time. Over the course of his life, Kafka 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 in 1924 at the age of 40 from tuberculosis.

Few of Kafka's works were published during his lifetime: the story collections ("Contemplation") and ("A Country Doctor"), and individual stories (such as "") were published in literary magazines but received little public attention. Kafka's unfinished works, including his novels , and (translated as both "Amerika" and "The Man Who Disappeared"), were ordered by Kafka to be destroyed by his friend ...