Due to this change in his subject, Kafka’s father was happy. There he initially started studying chemistry however, after two weeks switched to law. Even though Kafka was respected by teachers for his brilliance, he was still annoyed by their control and their control over his life.Īfter graduating from high school, Kafka attended the Charles Ferdinand University of Prague. Kafka, being a smart child, did very well at his school. This school was a challenging high school for the academic elite. Kafka attended Altstädter Staatsgymnasium. Even though Kafka had Jewish roots and Czech background, the German culture favored his identity. These powers could easily destroy the men’s will and his sense of self-worth. The characters in short stories and plays are often seen as struggling against a domineering power of any kind. Kafka demonstrated this complexity of relationships in his literary works. Kafka believed that his personal struggle in relationships and romance is because of his complicated relationship with his father. He never appreciates the creative side of his son. Kafka’s father had the nature of a tyrant that was accompanied by a wicked temper. On Kafka’s life and writings, his father has a strong and profound impact. Kafka’s mother, Julie, was a devoted house-woman and lacked the intellectual depth to understand the dream and desire of her son to become a writer. His father was a successful businessman who retailed men and women’s clothes. The personality of Kafka’s father Hermann was very forceful and often stunned the home. Kafka has very complicated and difficult relations with his parents. His sisters also die later in the death camps of Nazi.
After the death of his younger brothers, he became the only son of the family with three sisters. When Kafka was six years old, his two brothers George and Heinrich, died in infancy. He belongs to an upper-middle-class family. A Short Biography of Franz Kafkaįranz Kafka was born on 3 rd July 1883 in Prague, Bohemia. However, his stories did not receive any public attention.Įven though Kafka had told his lawyer to destroy his unfinished works that include his novels Der Process, Das Schloss, and Der Verschollene (this novel was translated as The Man who disappeared and Amerika both), however, the lawyer overlooked his instructions, when published the works have a great influence on critics, writers, philosophers, and writer of the 20 th and 21 st century. These works include collection Contemplation (Betrachtung) and A Country Doctor (Ein Landarzt), some individual stories which were published in a literary magazine. His unique writing style and the situations he depicted his works are described by the term Kafkaesque.ĭuring the life of Franz Kafka, very few of his works got published.
Kafka’s best works include “The Metamorphosis” (“Die Verwandlung”), The Trail (Der Process), and The Castle (Das Schloss). It explores themes of guilt, absurdity, existential anxiety, and alienation. His short stories and novels feature the protagonists that are completely isolated, encountering surrealistic or bizarre predicaments and inconceivable socio-bureaucratic powers. His works are a blend of elements of fantasy and realism. He was German-speaking and widely regarded as one of the influential figures of the literature of the 20 th -century. Franz Kafka was a Bohemian short-story writer and novelist.
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