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FRANZ KAFKA

FRANZ KAFKA . By Celile Önürt -20627842494. Overview. Life and Work Education Employment Literary Career Writing Style Publications Death. L ife and Work. Franz Kafka, born 3 July 1883 in Prague and died 3 June 1924 in Keirling

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FRANZ KAFKA

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  1. FRANZ KAFKA By Celile Önürt-20627842494

  2. Overview • Life andWork • Education • Employment • LiteraryCareer • WritingStyle • Publications • Death

  3. Life andWork Franz Kafka, • born3 July1883 in Pragueanddied 3 June1924 in Keirling • one of themostinfluentialGerman-languagenovelists • theterm "Kafkaesque" has becomepart of theEnglishvernacular.

  4. Life andwork • ‘’huge, selfish, overbearingbusinessman’’described his father as • Kafka'ssisterswere sent totheŁódźGhettoanddiedthereor in deathcamps

  5. education • Charles-FerdinandUniversity • Kafka firststudiedchemistry, but switchedtolaw • obtainedthedegree of Doctor of Law

  6. employment • theAssicurazioni Generali, a largeItalianinsurancecompany • Worker'sAccidentInsuranceInstitutefortheKingdom of Bohemia • with his closefriendsMaxBrodandFelixWeltsch • Yiddishtheatre

  7. LiteraryCareer • TheMetamorphosis • TheTrial • The Castle • Description of a Struggle • Contemplation • TheJudgment • TheStoker • TheStoker • Blumfeld, an ElderlyBachelor

  8. LiteraryCareer Kafka wroteto his friendandliteraryexecutorMaxBrod ‘’DearestMax, mylastrequest: Everything I leavebehindme ... in theway of diaries, manuscripts, letters (myownandothers'), sketches, andso on, [is] to be burnedunread’’

  9. WritingStyle • useof a characteristicpeculiartotheGermanlanguage • Kafka'ssentencesunexpectedimpactjustbeforethefull stop—thatbeingthefinalizingmeaningandfocus. • EspeciallyTheMetamorphosis

  10. Publications • Muchof Kafka'sworkwasunfinished • ThenovelsTheCastle,TheTrialandAmerikawereallpreparedforpublicationbyBrod

  11. Publications • LetterstoMilena • Inlate 1919, shetooknoticestory, Der Heizer (TheStoker)byKafka, andwrotetohim. • Thiswasthebeginning of theircorrespondence, whichwouldcontinueuntilearly 1923. 

  12. Death • He diedof tuberculosis in 1924 • ‘’I couldnot read this book, the human brain is not as extremely complexas it’’ by Einstein • ‘’If you hear one day the need for confessional, not a cage Kafka's grave sin of the Catholic Church would prefer’’ by Oscar Wilde

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