By
Celile Önürt-20627842494
 Life
and Work
 Education
 Employment
 Literary Career
 Writing Style
 Publications
 Death
Franz Kafka,
born 3 July 1883 in Prague
and died 3 June 1924 in Keirling
 one of the most
influential German-language
novelists
 the term "Kafkaesque" has
become part of the English
vernacular.

 ‘’huge,
selfish,
overbearing
businessman’’described
his father as

Kafka's sisters were sent
to the Łódź Ghettoand
died there or in death
camps

Charles-Ferdinand
University

Kafka first studied
chemistry, but switched to
law

obtained the degree of
Doctor of Law
the Assicurazioni Generali, a
large Italian insurance
company
 Worker's Accident
Insurance Institute for
the Kingdom of Bohemia
 with his close friends Max
Brod and Felix Weltsch
 Yiddish theatre

 The
Metamorphosis
 The Trial
 The Castle
 Description of a
Struggle
 Contemplation
 The Judgment
 The Stoker
 The Stoker
 Blumfeld, an Elderly
Bachelor
Kafka wrote to his friend and literary
executor Max Brod
‘’Dearest Max, my last request: Everything I
leave behind me ... in the way of diaries,
manuscripts, letters (my own and others'),
sketches, and so on, [is] to be burned unread’’
use of a characteristic
peculiar to the German
language
 Kafka's sentences
unexpected impact just
before the full stop—that
being the finalizing
meaning and focus.
 Especially The
Metamorphosis


Much of Kafka's
work was unfinished

The novels The
Castle, The Trial
and Amerika were
all prepared for
publication by Brod
Letters to Milena
 In late 1919, she
took notice story, Der
Heizer (The Stoker)
by Kafka, and wrote
to him.
 This was the
beginning of their
correspondence,
which would continue
until early 1923.

He died of tuberculosis in
1924
 ‘’I could not
read this book, the
human brain is not
as extremely complex as
it’’ by Einstein
 ‘’If you hear one day the
need for confessional, not
a cage Kafka's grave sin
of the Catholic Church
would prefer’’ by Oscar
Wilde
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