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Franz Kafka


Born
in Prague, Bohemia, Austria-Hungary, Czech Republic
July 03, 1883

Died
June 03, 1924

Genre
Fiction, Philosophy, Short Stories

Influences
Franz Werfel, Knut Hamsun, Robert Walser, Anton Chekhov, Søren Kierkeg ...more


Prague-born writer Franz Kafka wrote in German, and his stories, such as " The Metamorphosis " (1916), and posthumously published novels, including The Trial (1925), concern troubled individuals in a nightmarishly impersonal world.

Jewish middle-class family of this major fiction writer of the 20th century spoke German. People consider his unique body of much incomplete writing, mainly published posthumously, among the most influential in European literature.

His stories include "The Metamorphosis" (1912) and " In the Penal Colony " (1914), whereas his posthumous novels include The Trial (1925), The Castle (1926) and Amerika (1927).

Despite first language, Kafka also spoke fluent Czech. Later, Kafka acquired some knowledge of ...more

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Average rating: 3.9 · 1,886,007 ratings · 91,668 reviews · 2,954 distinct works • Similar authors
The Metamorphosis
3.87 avg rating — 1,099,104 ratings — published 1915 — 5350 editions
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The Trial
3.95 avg rating — 337,718 ratings — published 1925 — 2664 editions
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The Castle
3.93 avg rating — 64,703 ratings — published 1926 — 930 editions
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The Metamorphosis and Other...
4.03 avg rating — 56,902 ratings — published 1915 — 280 editions
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Letter to His Father
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4.01 avg rating — 39,939 ratings — published 1919 — 468 editions
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The Complete Stories
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4.34 avg rating — 27,008 ratings — published 1946 — 162 editions
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Amerika
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3.74 avg rating — 30,390 ratings — published 1927 — 76 editions
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In the Penal Colony
3.94 avg rating — 27,010 ratings — published 1918 — 481 editions
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A Hunger Artist
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4.10 avg rating — 19,134 ratings — published 1924 — 162 editions
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“Don't bend; don't water it down; don't try to make it logical; don't edit your own soul according to the fashion. Rather, follow your most intense obsessions mercilessly.”
― Franz Kafka
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“A book must be the axe for the frozen sea within us.”
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“I am a cage, in search of a bird.”
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