FRANZ KAFKA : All Time Great ⬆️
[ born July 3, 1883, (now in Czech Republic)—died June 3, 1924, (Kierling, near Vienna, Austria)].
He is German-language writer of visionary fiction. His works—especially the novel Der Prozess (1925; The Trial)
and the story Die Verwandlung (1915; The Metamorphosis )—express the anxieties, alienation, guilt & absurdity.
F. Kafka trained as a lawyer and after completing his legal education was employed full-time 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.
First page of Kafka’s Letter To His Father
He became engaged to several women but never married. He died in 1924 at the age of 40 from tuberculosis.
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Few of Kafka’s works were published during his lifetime: the story collections Contemplation & A Country Doctor, and individual stories (such as “The Metamorphosis”) were published in literary magazines but received little public attention.
In his will, Kafka instructed his executor and friend Max Brod to destroy his unfinished works, including his novels The Trial, The Castle, and Amerika but Brod ignored these instructions, and had the bulk of his work published. Kafka’s work has influenced a vast range of writers, critics, artists, and philosophers during the 20th and 21st centuries.
🔺Works Published Posthumously :-
The Trial (1925)
The Castle (1926)
Amerika, or The Man who Disappeared (1927)
Reflections on Sin, Hope, Suffering, and the True Way (1931)
“The Giant Mole” (1931)
The Great Wall of China (1931)
“Investigations of a Dog” (1933)
Description of a Struggle (1936)
The Diaries of Franz Kafka 1910-23 (1951)
Letters to Milena (1953)
Letters to Felice (1967)
The Trial, First edition dust jacket (1925)
💚 Franz Kafka’s work is characterized by anxiety & alienation and his characters often face absurd situations. He is famous for his novel The Trial, in which a man is charged with a crime that is never named ; The Metamorphosis, in which the protagonist wakes to find himself transformed into an insect.
💠 Kafka’s philosophy basis is an open system : it is one of human experiences about the world. Kafka’s protagonists confront a secularized deity, whose aspects are mysterious & anonymous. Absurdity is important part of life.
💙 Kafka is an existentialist. He used the existential idea that man’s fate is sometimes beyond man’s control. In his stories, chance or destiny rules man’s life. Gregor could not control his metamorphosis, just he can’t control his “new legs” which “waved helplessly before his eyes”.
🔶 The term Kafkaesque has entered English to describe situations like those found in his writings.
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💚 Book- The Trial. Publisher Wirehouse Classics :- First edition (22 October 2017). Language- English. Hardcover-132 pages.
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🔹The poet W. H. Auden called Kafka “the Danteof the twentieth century”.
🔹The novelist Vladimir Nabokov placed him among the greatest writers of the 20th century.
🔹Gabriel Garcia Marquez noted the reading of Kafka’s “The Metamorphosis” showed him “that it was possible to write in a different way”.
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