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
Franz Kafka quotes about
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.
A first sign of the beginning of understanding is the wish to die.
The true word leads; the untrue misleads.
Either the world is so tiny or we are enormous; in either case, we fill it completely.
You are so vulnerably haunting. Your eeriness is terrifyingly irresistible.
The tremendous world I have inside my head. But how free myself and free it without being torn to pieces. And a thousand times rather be torn to pieces than retain it in me or bury it. That, indeed, is why I am here, that is quite clear to me.
Start with what is right rather than what is acceptable.
Youth is happy because it has the capacity to see beauty.