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Franz Kafka


Born
in Prague, Bohemia, Austria-Hungary, Czech Republic
July 03, 1883

Died
June 03, 1924

Genre
Fiction, Philosophy, Short Stories

Influences
Franz Werfel, Knut Hamsun, Robert Walser, Anton Chekhov, Søren Kierkeg ...more


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. People consider his unique body of much incomplete writing, mainly published posthumously, among the most influential in European literature.

His stories include "The Metamorphosis" (1912) and " In the Penal Colony " (1914), whereas his posthumous novels include The Trial (1925), The Castle (1926) and Amerika (1927).

Despite first language, Kafka also spoke fluent Czech. Later, Kafka acquired some knowledge of ...more

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Average rating: 3.89 · 1,672,562 ratings · 72,914 reviews · 2,508 distinct works • Similar authors
The Metamorphosis
3.85 avg rating — 963,855 ratings — published 1915 — 6923 editions
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The Trial
3.96 avg rating — 305,180 ratings — published 1925 — 1269 editions
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The Castle
3.94 avg rating — 59,467 ratings — published 1926 — 23 editions
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The Metamorphosis and Other...
4.04 avg rating — 53,305 ratings — published 1915 — 346 editions
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Letter to His Father
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3.97 avg rating — 29,993 ratings — published 1919 — 453 editions
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The Complete Stories
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4.34 avg rating — 26,028 ratings — published 1946 — 130 editions
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Amerika
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3.74 avg rating — 28,431 ratings — published 1927 — 594 editions
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In the Penal Colony
3.95 avg rating — 23,954 ratings — published 1918 — 676 editions
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A Hunger Artist
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“A book must be the axe for the frozen sea within us.”
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“Don't bend; don't water it down; don't try to make it logical; don't edit your own soul according to the fashion. Rather, follow your most intense obsessions mercilessly.”
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“I am a cage, in search of a bird.”
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Polls

October 2014 New School Poll

 
  26 votes, 20.5%

1925, The Trial by Franz Kafka, pages 276
 
  21 votes, 16.5%

 
  12 votes, 9.4%

1920, The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton, pages 305
 
  9 votes, 7.1%

1952, Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison, 581 pages
 
  8 votes, 6.3%

 
  8 votes, 6.3%

 
  7 votes, 5.5%

1966, Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes, pages 311
 
  7 votes, 5.5%

 
  5 votes, 3.9%

 
  5 votes, 3.9%

1957, The Midwich Cuckoos by John Wyndham, pages 220
 
  4 votes, 3.1%

1974, Ragtime by E.L. Doctorow, pages 336
 
  4 votes, 3.1%

1952, The Birds by Daphne du Maurier, pages 75
 
  4 votes, 3.1%

 
  2 votes, 1.6%

 
  2 votes, 1.6%

 
  2 votes, 1.6%

1980. Aztec by Gary Jennings, pages 754
 
  1 vote, 0.8%

1903, The Ambassadors by Henry James, pages 528
 
  0 votes, 0.0%

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