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  1. Apr 2, 2020 · Franz Kafka (July 3, 1883 – June 3, 1924) was a Czech novelist and short-story writer, widely considered one of the most important literary figures of the 20th century. Kafka was a natural writer, though he worked as a lawyer, and his literary merit went largely unrecognized during his short lifetime.

  2. 3 days ago · Benjamin’s aim is to catch Kafka in the act of writing, and to present the diaries not as a cohesive whole, as Brod’s version does, but as “Schrift, writing as a fluid, ongoing, goalless ...

  3. 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.

  4. The Metamorphosis (German: Die Verwandlung) is a novella written by Franz Kafka and first published in 1915. One of Kafka's best-known works, Metamorphosis tells the story of salesman Gregor Samsa, who wakes one morning to find himself inexplicably transformed into a huge insect ( German : ungeheueres Ungeziefer , lit. " monstrous vermin ") and ...

  5. Jul 18, 2015 · 1. What need a modern reader know of Franz Kafkas Metamorphosis ( Die Verwandlung) – arguably the most famous, also greatest, short story in the history of literary fiction? 2.

  6. Franz Kafka, (born July 3, 1883, Prague, Bohemia, Austria-Hungary—died June 3, 1924, Kierling, near Vienna, Austria), Czech writer who wrote in German. Born into a middle-class Jewish family, he earned a doctorate and then worked successfully but unhappily at a government insurance office from 1907 until he was forced by a case of ...

  7. The Trial, novel by visionary German-language writer Franz Kafka, originally published posthumously in 1925.

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