Biography of franz kafka metamorphosis pdf español
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Kafka, Franz - Metamorphosis (Bantam, 1986)
IntrQduction
While he lived, Franz Kafka was an obscure writer of short novels; when he died, he became the body of works that has created our modem awareness. The metamor phosis of history by Kafka, and Paris, London, and New York; and there, especially dur ing the 1940's, the truthfulness and beauty of Kafka's work, its logic· and bewitchment, began to preoccupy critics and interpreters. Kafka's prestige has steadily in creased, so that today it would require a lifetime to study and master the critical literature that has grown up around his work. Kafka was born in 1883 in Prague, then the capital of a province of the Austro-Hungarian Empire. He was born the citizen of a crumbling state, a German-speaker among Czech-speakers, a Jew among Gentiles-and in himself the loneliest of men. Within his family, dominated by his father Hemnann Kafka, a huge, selfish, overbearing busi nessman, Franz, the only son, lived a life of estrangement in a freezing solitude he called "Russian." He did not live alone until he was thirty-three; and he did not live with a woman until the last year of his life, when he fled Prague for Berlin. His poverty and the cold of winter in inflation-ridden Germany exacerbated his disease, and
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Franz Kafka Biography (Text)
Franz Kafka Biography (Text)
Prague, Bohemia, Austria-Hungary [now in Czech
Republic]—died June 3, 1924, Kierling, near Vienna, Austria), German-language writer
of visionary fiction whose works express the anxieties and alienation felt by many in
20th-century Europe and North America.
Life
Franz Kafka, the son of Julie Löwy and Hermann Kafka, a merchant, was born into a prosperous
middle-class Jewish family. After two brothers died in infancy, he became the eldest child and
remained, for the rest of his life, conscious of his role as elder brother; Ottla, the youngest of his
three sisters, became the family member closest to him. He was not, however, particularly close
to his mother. The eldest child of a terrifyingly, psychologically abusive father and a mother who
was too weak and in all of her husband to protect her boy as she should have done. Kafka grew
up timid, bookish, meek and full of self-hatred. He wanted to become a writer but it was out of
the question in his father's eyes, so one of the greatest German literary geniuses since Goethe
was forced to spend his brief life on Earth working in a series of jobs utterly beneath him: in a
lawyer office and then an insurance company. Kafka was German both in language and culture.
He was a timid, guilt-ridden, and
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