![]() ![]() Both parents, business-like and capitalist, were able to appreciate Kafka’s literary interests. Despite this hands-off approach, Kafka’s father was ill-tempered and tyrannical, a figure that dominated his life and his work. Their childhood was notable in its lack of parental presence both parents worked long hours for the business and the children were mainly raised by governesses and nannies. The remaining three sisters all died in concentration camps during the Holocaust, though Franz himself did not live long enough to mourn them. Julie, though better educated than her husband, was dominated by his overbearing nature and worked long hours to contribute to his business.įranz was the oldest child of six, though his two brothers died before he was seven years old. The two were an industrious couple: after working as a traveling salesman, Hermann started a successful fashion retail enterprise. His mother, meanwhile, was the daughter of a well-to-do merchant. His father, Hermann Kafka, had brought the family to Prague he himself was the fourth son of a shoshek, or ritual slaughterer, in southern Bohemia. His family was middle-class German-speaking Ashkenazi Jewish. If the book we're reading doesn't wake us up with a blow to the head, what are we reading for?”įranz Kafka was born in Prague, then part of Bohemia in the Austro-Hungarian Empire, in 1883. Notable Quote: “I think we ought to read only the kind of books that wound or stab us.Selected Published Works: The Metamorphosis (Die Verwandlung, 1915), "A Hunger Artist" ("Ein Hungerkünstler," 1922), The Trial ( Der Prozess, 1925), Amerika, or The Man who Disappeared (Amerika, or Der Verschollene, 1927), The Castle (Das Schloss, 1926). ![]() Education: Deutsche Karl-Ferdinands-Universität of Prague.Born: Jin Prague, Bohemia, Austro-Hungarian Empire (now Czech Republic).Known For: Literary depictions of the alienation of the modern individual, particularly through governmental bureaucracy. ![]()
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