Franz Kafka
Franz Kafka
Franz Kafkawas a German-language writer of novels and short stories who is widely regarded as one of the major figures of 20th-century literature. His work, which fuses elements of realism and the fantastic, typically features isolated protagonists faced by bizarre or surrealistic predicaments and incomprehensible social-bureaucratic powers, and has been interpreted as exploring themes of alienation, existential anxiety, guilt, and absurdity. His best known works include "Die Verwandlung", Der Process, and Das Schloss. The term Kafkaesque has entered the English...
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth3 July 1883
CityPrague, Czech Republic
In man's struggle against the world, bet on the world.
The state we find ourselves in is sinful quite independent of guilt.
The dream reveals the reality which conception lags behind. That is the horror of life-the terror of art.
He who seeks does not find, but he who does not seek will be found.
All knowledge, the totality of all questions and all answers, is contained in the dog. If one could but realize this knowledge, if one could but bring it into the light of day, if we dogs would but own that we know infinitely more than we admit to ourselves!
The Messiah will only come when he is no longer needed.
As Gregor Samsa awoke one morning from uneasy dreams he found himself transformed in his bed into a gigantic insect.
I can't feel a thing; All mournful petal storms are dancing inside the very private spring of my head.
In the fight between you and the world, back the world.
He who does not answer the questions has passed the test.
I have spent all my life resisting the desire to end it.
One advantage in keeping a diary is that you become aware with reassuring clarity of the changes which you constantly suffer.
Written kisses don't reach their destination, rather they are drunk on the way by the ghosts.
The right understanding of any matter and a misunderstanding of the same matter do not wholly exclude each other.