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Franz Kafka - Czech-born German writer |
Franz Kafka was one of the major German-language fiction writers of the 20th century. A middle-class Jew based in Prague, his unique body of writing has become amongst the most influential in Western literature.
Kafka is best known for his short story Metamorphosis (1912) and the widespread familiarity of the literary term Kafkaesque, inspired by his nightmarishly complex and bizarre yet absurd and impersonal short stories.
Kafka left instructions after his death that his writings should be destroyed. His friend, author Max Brod, instead edited and published his writings in the 1930s, including The Trial and The Metamorphosis. Kafka's work, with its themes of alienation from society and a general anxiety over just being alive, had a strong influence on European intellectuals.
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| [By Johnsen] [07/Jul/07] |
