![]() ![]() ![]() He left home at the tender age of fourteen, joined the army at nineteen, and then took on employment as a traveling salesman. As soon as he was able to push a wheelbarrow, he began delivering kosher meats for his father. Kafka’s father, Hermann Kafka, worked his way up from poverty. “What I needed was a little encouragement, a little friendliness, a little help to keep my future open, instead you obstructed it, admittedly with the good intention of persuading me to go down a different path.” ~ Franz Kafka, Letter to My Father He had a gift that he could not deny, calling his writing a form of prayer. Kafka was a genius of literature―using the power of words to convey the images released from his very soul. His writings transcend time and, as in the case of his longer work The Trial, even foreshadow future events. Some of his most widely read works include The Metamorphosis, A Hunger Artist, In the Penal Colony and The Judgment. Kafka has influenced such writers as Albert Camus, Jean-Paul Sartre, and Eugène Ionesco and the genre of existentialism. ![]() Instead, Brod completed and published a large body of his work, leaving an impression of the Kafka that we know today. On his deathbed, he asked his friend Max Brod to burn most of his writing. During his lifetime, he published a handful of stories, dealing with themes such as isolation and alienation. Above all, his calling and passion was writing, which he pursued in his free time, primarily in the evening hours after working a long day. He studied law, yet regretted having to devote so much of his time working for an insurance company. Hailing from Prague, he was born to a middle-class, Geman-speaking, Jewish family. “All I am is literature, and I am not able or willing to be anything else.” ~Franz Kafkaįranz Kafka (1883–1924) resonates throughout history as one of the most influential writers of the 20th century. ![]()
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