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.
Persons who write a 10,000 word document and call it a brief
Isn't it only natural to leave a place where one is so bitterly hated?...The heroism involved in staying put in spite of it all is the heroism of a cockroach, which also won't be driven out of the bathroom.
His weariness is that of the gladiator after the combat; his work was the whitewashing of a corner in a state official's office
The indestructible is one: it is each individual human being and, at the same time, it is common to all, hence the incomparably indivisible union that exists between human beings.
It is comforting to reflect that the disproportion of things in the world seems to be only arithmetical.
So long as you have food in your mouth, you have solved all questions for the time being.
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.
The decisive moment in human evolution is perpetual. That is why the revolutionary spiritual movements that declare all former things worthless are in the right, for nothing has yet happened.
Always first draw fresh breath after outbursts of vanity and complacency.