Franz Kafka
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- He was an influential German-language author of novels and short stories, regarded among the greatest writers of the 20th century.
- Kafka was born in a middle class, german-speaking,jewish Ashkenazi family, in Prague, then part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire. Working for an insurance company, he wrote in German the novels.
-Writing played a dominant part in hisrelations to several people, including his father his fiancée, and his youngest sister.
-Franz was the oldest of six children. He had two younger brothers: Georg and Heinrich, who died at theages of fifteen months and seven months, respectively, before Franz was seven; and three younger sisters, Gabriele, Valerie and Ottilie.
-Kafka first studied chemistry, but switched after twoweeks to law. At the university, he joined a student club, named "Lese- und Redehalle der Deutschen Studenten", which organized literary events, readings and other activities.
-In Berlin,he lived with Diamant, a 25-year-old kindergarten teacher from an orthodox Jewish family, who was independent enough to have escaped her past in the ghetto. She became his lover, andinfluenced Kafka's interest in the Talmud.
-Kafka's tuberculosis worsened and he returned to Prague under the care of his family, most notably by his sister Ottla. He went to Dr. Hoffmann'ssanatorium in Kierling near Vienna for treatment, where he died on 3 June 1924, apparently from starvation. The condition of Kafka's throat made eating too painful for him, and since parenteralnutrition had not yet been developed, there was no way to feed him. He was aged 40 years and 11 months. His body was ultimately brought back to Prague where he was buried on 11 June 1924, inthe New Jewish Cemetery in Prague-Žižkov.
-He wrote stories and novels like
The Metamorphosis in 1912.
Letter to His Father in 1919
Franz Kafka's Diaries in 1910-19232
- Kafka was born in a middle class, german-speaking,jewish Ashkenazi family, in Prague, then part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire. Working for an insurance company, he wrote in German the novels.
-Writing played a dominant part in hisrelations to several people, including his father his fiancée, and his youngest sister.
-Franz was the oldest of six children. He had two younger brothers: Georg and Heinrich, who died at theages of fifteen months and seven months, respectively, before Franz was seven; and three younger sisters, Gabriele, Valerie and Ottilie.
-Kafka first studied chemistry, but switched after twoweeks to law. At the university, he joined a student club, named "Lese- und Redehalle der Deutschen Studenten", which organized literary events, readings and other activities.
-In Berlin,he lived with Diamant, a 25-year-old kindergarten teacher from an orthodox Jewish family, who was independent enough to have escaped her past in the ghetto. She became his lover, andinfluenced Kafka's interest in the Talmud.
-Kafka's tuberculosis worsened and he returned to Prague under the care of his family, most notably by his sister Ottla. He went to Dr. Hoffmann'ssanatorium in Kierling near Vienna for treatment, where he died on 3 June 1924, apparently from starvation. The condition of Kafka's throat made eating too painful for him, and since parenteralnutrition had not yet been developed, there was no way to feed him. He was aged 40 years and 11 months. His body was ultimately brought back to Prague where he was buried on 11 June 1924, inthe New Jewish Cemetery in Prague-Žižkov.
-He wrote stories and novels like
The Metamorphosis in 1912.
Letter to His Father in 1919
Franz Kafka's Diaries in 1910-19232
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