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Title: Franz Kafka


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Franz Kafka
  • 1833-1924

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Biographical details
  • Born in Prague in 1883. At that time Prague was
    part of the Austro-Hungarian empire
  • His family lived under the growing threat of
    anti-semitism
  • His Father verbally abused Franz
  • He was the eldest of six children his two
    youngest brothers died when they were young. His
    three sisters were sent to Jewish ghettos and
    concentration camps in their adult lives. They
    died there.

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Biographical details, contd.
  • The situation for Jews in Bohemia at the turn
    of  the century seems to have been one of 
    somewhat suspicious tolerance most of the time,
    with exceptions such as the 1899 anti-Semitic
    riots in Prague, which wiped out many stores
    owned by Jewish shopkeepers.   Kafka's  father,
    who himself owned a shop, had registered his
    family as Czech nationals, and so escaped
    destruction (http//www.kafka-franz.com/kafka-a
    nd-judaism.htm).

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Health issues
  • He suffered from depression, social anxiety,
    hypochondria
  • In 1917, Kafka began suffering from tuberculosis,
    a disease of the lungs
  • He died from this disease in 1924

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Adult life
  • He lived with his parents he did not have a good
    relationship with his father
  • He developed intense relationships with women.
    One almost resulted in marriage, but he called it
    off.

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Writing style
  • The adjective kafka-esque is used when
    describing situations or writing that is
    nightmarish, surreal, pointless or overly complex

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Major works
  • The Trial
  • The Castle
  • Metamorphosis
  • Amerika
  • All published after he died

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To read more
  • www.Kafka.org
  • http//www.tameri.com/csw/exist/kafka.shtml
  • http//www.kafka-franz.com/kafka-Biography.htm
  • http//www.themodernword.com/kafka/kafka_biography
    .html

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