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
What have I in common with Jews? I have hardly anything in common with myself
It's often safer to be in chains than to be free
One must not cheat anybody, not even the world of one's triumph.
A book should serve as the ax for the frozen sea within us.
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I miss you deeply, unfathomably, senselessly, terribly.
I’m tired, can’t think of anything and want only to lay my face in your lap, feel your hand on my head and remain like that through all eternity.
Always first draw fresh breath after outbursts of vanity and complacency.
He was a tool of the boss, without brains or backbone.
Hiding places there are innumerable, escape is only one, but possibilities of escape, again, are as many as hiding places.
Love is, that you are the knife which I plunge into myself.
The limited circle is pure.
I have spent all my life resisting the desire to end it.
I can't feel a thing; All mournful petal storms are dancing inside the very private spring of my head.