Franz Kafka in 1923

Personal information
Birth July 3, 1883 Prague (Austro-Hungarian Empire)
Died June 3, 1924 (age 40) Kafka Sterbehaus (Klosterneuburg, Austria)
Cause of death Laryngeal tuberculosis
Burial New Prague Jewish Cemetery and Grave of Franz Kafka Las hermanas de Franz Kafka, de izquierda a derecha
Valli, Elli, Ottla
Residence Prague
Czechoslovak nationality (1918-1924)
Judaism religion
Mother tongue German and Czech
Family Parents Hermann Kafka and Julie Kafková
Dora Diamond Couple
Education Educated at Charles University in Prague
Faculty of Philosophy of the German University in Prague
Faculty of Law, German University in Prague
German University of Prague (Doc. of Law in Law; 1901-1906)
Professional information
Occupation: Novelist, fabulist, short story writer, aphorist, diarist, translator, lawyer, screenwriter, poet lawyer,
claims adjuster, prose writer, and writer
Area Literature and Prague German Literature
Years active since 1904
Employer
Assicurazioni Generally
Allgemeine Unfallversicherungsanstalt
Modernism and existentialism movement
Genres Modernism, belles lettres, short story, pritcha, novel and short story
notable works
Metamorphosis
The process
the castle
Before the Law
America
1.The life and work of Franz Kafka are brimming
with uniqueness. Not surprisingly, the Kafkaesque
adjective is already part of several languages,
including Spanish. His influence is recognized by
other writers such as Jorge Luis Borges or Albert
Camus, to cite a couple of examples, and his stories
continue to be read and studied with particular
emphasis throughout the Western world. For this
reason, it is convenient to bear in mind the
fundamental aspects of his far from easy existence
and of his writings, which we summarize below.
2.Franz Kafka was born in Prague in 1883, into a Jewish family.
His father was a middle-class merchant and his mother came
from a wealthy family. He had 2 brothers who died in infancy and
3 sisters who perished in Nazi concentration camps. In addition
to Czech, he spoke German, his mother's language, which he
used in all his writing.
At university, he began to study Chemistry, then changed to
History of Art and German Philology, until he studied Law (due to
pressure from his father), a career in which he received his
doctorate in 1906. Between 1908 and 1922 he worked in a news
agency. insurance. In 1917 he was diagnosed with tuberculosis,
which worsened, for which he had to be hospitalized on several
occasions, and which caused his death in 1924, while he was
confined in the Wiener Wald sanatorium, near Vienna. He was 40
years old.

3. In addition to his precarious health, two other aspects influenced the life and, consequently, the character and temperament of
Kafka. On the one hand, the tyrannical and controlling figure of his father, who also looked down on him and put excessive
pressure on him. On the other, their frustrated love affairs. He maintained several relationships with women from different social
strata, and was engaged up to 3 times with two suitors, without the marriage ever taking place.

All this made Kafka a very introverted and melancholic person, although he possessed more than outstanding intelligence and wit.
The combination of these three factors is perhaps what has produced some of the most original and interesting works of
contemporary literature.
4.The work of Franz Kafka Although Kafka managed to publish several
texts in his lifetime, basically short stories, his most important works were
published posthumously, thanks to his friend Max Brod, who ignored
Kafka's wish that they be burned. If we were to mention his best-known
and most influential works, these would be:
6.Both El proceso, El Castillo and América are unfinished
works, published posthumously, just a few years after
Kafka's death, and which immediately captured the attention
of critics and the public. Almost equally popular are the
collections of letters and entries in his diaries, most notably
his Letter to the Father, from 1919.
5. The Metamorphosis, also known as The
Transformation, published in 1915. It is a short novel
that narrates how Gregor Samsa, a young clerk whose
job is the livelihood of his entire family, wakes up one
day turned into a horrible insect, and how others react
to this fact. The trial, in which the protagonist, Josef K,
is arrested and begins to be tried for reasons unknown
to him. His life becomes a nightmare when he cannot
get an explanation of the reasons why he is being
prosecuted, despite trying all kinds of resources. The
castle tells the story of K, a surveyor supposedly hired
by the authorities of a town, but who cannot access the
castle where he must specify the terms of his contract,
due to the endless and absurd bureaucratic obstacles
that stand in his way. América renamed in 1982 as El
desaparecidos, about the adventures of Karl Rossmann,
a teenager whose parents send him to the United States
to study after having had a child with the maid, and
who meets a series of colorful characters during his
stay. and curious situations
7.The theme and style of Franz Kafka .
Although careful and precise in language, Kafka's works
8.Thus, in The Metamorphosis, for example, she reflects both the
incomprehension of the human being in the face of those who are
are not distinguished by a singular literary style. Normally
different, as well as selfishness (apathy as Gregor's family is letting him
written from the perspective of an omniscient narrator,
die, despite the fact that he had been her financial support ) or the
with the necessary dialogues between the characters,
feeling of inferiority and underestimation that we can inflict on
they have a linear structure in time, without anachronies.
ourselves.
What makes this writer a source of inspiration and caught
In The Trial and The Castle, Kafka reflects the anguish faced with a
the attention of critics, his colleagues and the general
bureaucracy that, far from working to resolve things, establishes a
public, is the subject matter of his works. In fact, in all of
complex and at the same time diffuse regulation to complicate them
them he presents facts that in principle may be normal
further, and how we cannot escape from it.
but that become surreal. That is why the Kafkaesque term
defines absurd and distressing situations.
As we mentioned earlier, the work of Franz Kafka has had a great
influence on many other writers from the mid-20th century to date.
His stories are true parables that, through a reduction to
More recently, novelists like the popular Haruki Murakami expressly
absurdity, reflect the despair of human beings in the face
highlight how Kakfa has been a constant source of inspiration.
of aspects that do not seem to make sense (or that simply
do not have it) and about our own weaknesses and
insecurities. They denote a great existential anguish, very
typical of the 20th century.
1- FOTO DE KAFKA
2- FOTO DE PRAGA
3-FOTO KAFKA Y EL PAPA
4- IMÁGENES DE LOS LIBROS JUNTOS
5- IMAGEN LA METAMORFOSIS, EL PROCESO, EL
CASTILLO Y AMERICA
6- KAFKA ESCRIBIENDO
7- LIBRO CON MANOS
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