Franz Kafka

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08 December 2008

Franz Kafka

Introduction

Franz Kafka was one of the most famous Czech-born German of his time . His short story Metamorphosis has become a unique example of the way fantasy , allegory , and the lack of personal communication between the characters could be combined to form an image of tragic inevitability in the reader 's mind . Being one of the most influential of the 20th century , he did not have a chance for fame during his life nevertheless , his stories

and other literary works remain the inexhaustible sources of numerous ideas for literary research

Franz Kafka : general biography

Franz Kafka was born on July 3rd , 1883 in Bohemia . His family was a Jewish middle-class , German-speaking family his mother Julie , three younger sisters and his successful merchant father Hermann (Literature Network . Kafka 's father owned a store and kept to old-fashioned ideas about the irrelevance and inappropriateness of literary strivings in his son 's life . Throughout his life , Hermann was the irresistible source of conflicts and despairs for the young writer . Kafka was born in an extremely unfavorable historical and social environment : a controversial combination of bureaucracy and social discord was characteristic of the then Prague (Powel 23 . The city without identity burdened the young man , and pushed him to search his self-realization in literature

At the age of 6 , Kafka was sent to a German school the choice of the German school demonstrated his father 's desire for social advancement...