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Franz Kafka
AuthorBooks · Second hand1883-1924
Bohemian German-language writer, one of the most influential voices of the twentieth century and author of The Metamorphosis, The Trial and The Castle.
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About Franz Kafka
Birth
1883
Death
1924
First book
1912
Years writing
114
Bohemian German-language writer, one of the most influential voices of the twentieth century and author of The Metamorphosis, The Trial and The Castle.
He worked his entire adult life at a workers' accident insurance company and wrote almost exclusively at night.
He asked his friend Max Brod to burn all his unpublished manuscripts after his death; Brod refused.
Major works such as The Trial and The Castle were published posthumously.
He died of laryngeal tuberculosis at 40 in a sanatorium near Vienna.
His name produced the adjective 'kafkaesque' to describe absurd, oppressive bureaucratic situations.
