StatsBirth Name: Franz Kafka Born: 3 July 1883 Died: 3 June 1924 Country of origin:  Czech Republic Ethnicity: White / Caucasian
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Franz Kafka is one of the most influential fiction writers of the early 20th century; a novelist and writer of short stories whose works, only after his death, came to be regarded as one of the major achievements of 20th century literature.
He was born to middle class German-speaking Jewish parents in Prague, Bohemia, now part of the Czech Republic, in what was then the Austro-Hungarian Empire. The house in which he was born, on the Old Town Square next to Prague's Church of St Ni
Franz Kafka is one of the most influential fiction writers of the early 20th century; a novelist and writer of short stories whose works, only after his death, came to be regarded as one of the major achievements of 20th century literature.
He was born to middle class German-speaking Jewish parents in Prague, Bohemia, now part of the Czech Republic, in what was then the Austro-Hungarian Empire. The house in which he was born, on the Old Town Square next to Prague's Church of St Nicholas, today contains a permanent exhibition devoted to the author.[1]
Kafka's work—the novels The Trial (1925), The Castle (1926) and Amerika (1927), as well as short stories including The Metamorphosis (1912) and In the Penal Colony (1914)—is now collectively considered to be among the most original bodies of work in modern Western literature. Much of his work, unfinished at the time of his death, was published posthumously.[2]
The writers' name has led to the term "Kafkaesque" being used in the English language.
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 Great Quotes from Authors (23 person items)"“Logic may indeed be unshakeable, but it cannot withstand a man who is determined to live.” "
 People Quotes - Part 1 (50 person items)"“I write differently from what I speak, I speak differently from what I think, I think differently from the way I ought to think, and so it all proceeds into deepest darkness.”
“From a certain point onward, there is no turning back. That is the point that must be reached.”"
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 50 Favorite Authors (50 person items)"The Trial (10/10)
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The Metamorphosis
"Was he an animal, that music could move him so? He felt as if the way to the unknown nourishment he longed for were coming to light."
The Trial
"It would have been so pointless to kill himself that, even if he had wanted to, the pointlessness would have made him unable.""
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 10 fatos curiosos sobre escritores famosos (10 person items)"Há quem defenda que Franz Kafka, autor de “A metamorfose”, tenha inventado o capacete de segurança civil, quando trabalhava no Instituto de Seguros e Acidentes de Trabalho da Boêmia, apesar de não haver certeza se ele inventou mesmo o objeto ou só defendeu o seu uso generalizado."
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 Authors with Mental Illnesses (23 person items)""It is generally agreed that Kafka suffered from clinical depression and social anxiety throughout his entire life. He also suffered from migraines, insomnia, constipation, boils, and other ailments, all usually brought on by excessive stresses and strains."
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"A book should serve as the ax for the frozen sea within us."
"By believing passionately in something that still does not exist, we create it. The nonexistent is whatever we have not sufficiently desired""
 Authors in the Dictionary (26 person items)"Kafkaesque adj. relating to the Czech novelist Franz Kafka (1883-1924) or his nightmarish fictional world."
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