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	==Influences==		==Influences==
	Kafka had many influences most which were German (Grillparzer, Kleist, Goethe) (Dodd) but this did not stop his work from being ~~universal~~. By keeping his setting and other aspects of his work ambiguous he allows the reader to connect with the central themes of his works. Another influence of Kafka, was his surroundings, in fact, ''Metamorphosis'' is loosely based on the ~~realationship~~ with his father who played a tyrranical role in his life much like the "Mr. Samsa" assumed later in the novella.		Kafka had many influences to his writing, most of which were German (Grillparzer, Kleist, Goethe) (Dodd), but this did not stop his work from being difficult to relate to. By keeping his setting and other aspects of his work ambiguous, he allows the reader to connect with the central themes of his works. Another influence of Kafka was his surroundings, in fact, ''Metamorphosis'' is loosely based on the relationship with his father who played a tyrranical role in his life much like the "Mr. Samsa" assumed later in the novella.

	==List of Works==		==List of Works==

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	Franz Kafka was born in Prague on July 3,1883. Like most authors he was over looked during his short life. He was raised in a middle class Jewish family and had a very strict father, Hermann. Hermann owned a dry-goods wholesale store, he was an uneducated but industrious Czech who had married Julie Loewy, an urbane, German-speaking Jew from a slightly higher social class. “Hermann's domineering manner greatly distressed young Kafka, who found his father loud, impatient, unsympathetic, and, consequently, overwhelming and intimidating” (Contemporary). “Kafka’s most remembered childhood memory was of an incident in which he repeatedly cried from his bed for water, where then his father took him to the balcony and locked him outside” (Contemporary). Many years later this event still haunted Kafka, and in one of his later works he criticized him for his crude methods. “’For years thereafter,’ Kafka wrote, ‘I kept being haunted by fantasies of this giant of a man, my father, the ultimate judge, coming to get me in the middle of the night, and for almost no reason at all dragging me out of bed onto the pavlatch--in other words, that as far as he was concerned, I was an absolute Nothing’” (Contemporary). In 1901-1906 Kafka studied German literature and received a law degree at a German University in Prague. Kafka then goes to work for the law office of Richard Lowy in Prague and goes back to college for his doctorate degree. "In his brief lifetime, Kafka wrote some of the most orginal and influential works of the 20th century, including "The Metamorphosis" (1915), "A Hunger Artist" (1924), "The Trial" (1925), "The Castle" (1926), and "The Man Who Diseappeared" (aka "Amerika"; 1927) (Dachslager). Still not satisfied he began looking for another job and found one in 1908 at the semi-govermental Worker's Accident Insurance Institute where he remained until he retired in 1922. His works were never published until his tragic death. Kafka was a very sick man most of his life. He contacted tuberculosis which made him very weak and feable. "When a subsequent diagnosis revealed an improved condition, Kafka was so overwhelmed with happiness that he proposed marriage to Dymant. But within two weeks he suffered great pain and pleaded for his physician to administer morphine. Injections were given, and an ice pack was set on Kafka's throat. On June 3, he awoke and threw the ice pack from himself, then lapsed again into unconsciousness and death" (Contemporary). He died in a sanatorium near Vienna on June 3, 1924, one month short of his 41st birthday.		Franz Kafka was born in Prague on July 3,1883. Like most authors he was over looked during his short life. He was raised in a middle class Jewish family and had a very strict father, Hermann. Hermann owned a dry-goods wholesale store, he was an uneducated but industrious Czech who had married Julie Loewy, an urbane, German-speaking Jew from a slightly higher social class. “Hermann's domineering manner greatly distressed young Kafka, who found his father loud, impatient, unsympathetic, and, consequently, overwhelming and intimidating” (Contemporary). “Kafka’s most remembered childhood memory was of an incident in which he repeatedly cried from his bed for water, where then his father took him to the balcony and locked him outside” (Contemporary). Many years later this event still haunted Kafka, and in one of his later works he criticized him for his crude methods. “’For years thereafter,’ Kafka wrote, ‘I kept being haunted by fantasies of this giant of a man, my father, the ultimate judge, coming to get me in the middle of the night, and for almost no reason at all dragging me out of bed onto the pavlatch--in other words, that as far as he was concerned, I was an absolute Nothing’” (Contemporary). In 1901-1906 Kafka studied German literature and received a law degree at a German University in Prague. Kafka then goes to work for the law office of Richard Lowy in Prague and goes back to college for his doctorate degree. "In his brief lifetime, Kafka wrote some of the most orginal and influential works of the 20th century, including "The Metamorphosis" (1915), "A Hunger Artist" (1924), "The Trial" (1925), "The Castle" (1926), and "The Man Who Diseappeared" (aka "Amerika"; 1927) (Dachslager). Still not satisfied he began looking for another job and found one in 1908 at the semi-govermental Worker's Accident Insurance Institute where he remained until he retired in 1922. His works were never published until his tragic death. Kafka was a very sick man most of his life. He contacted tuberculosis which made him very weak and feable. "When a subsequent diagnosis revealed an improved condition, Kafka was so overwhelmed with happiness that he proposed marriage to Dymant. But within two weeks he suffered great pain and pleaded for his physician to administer morphine. Injections were given, and an ice pack was set on Kafka's throat. On June 3, he awoke and threw the ice pack from himself, then lapsed again into unconsciousness and death" (Contemporary). He died in a sanatorium near Vienna on June 3, 1924, one month short of his 41st birthday.

			==Influences==
			Kafka had many influences most which were German (Grillparzer, Kleist, Goethe) (Dodd) but this did not stop his work from being universal. By keeping his setting and other aspects of his work ambiguous he allows the reader to connect with the central themes of his works. Another influence of Kafka, was his surroundings, in fact, ''Metamorphosis'' is loosely based on the realationship with his father who played a tyrranical role in his life much like the "Mr. Samsa" assumed later in the novella.

	==List of Works==		==List of Works==
	Amerika		[[Amerika]]

	[[The Trial]]		[[The Trial]]

	The Castle		[[The Castle]]

	[[The Metamorphosis]]		[[The Metamorphosis]]

	In the Penal Colony		[[In the Penal Colony]]

	Meditation		[[Meditation]]

	The Judgment		[[The Judgment]]

	The Country Doctor		[[The Country Doctor]]

	A Hunger Artist		[[A Hunger Artist]]

	Description of a Struggle		[[Description of a Struggle]]

	Wedding Preparations in the Country		[[Wedding Preparations in the Country]]

	The Urban World		[[The Urban World]]

	A Perfect Fool		[[A Perfect Fool]]

	Temptation in the Village		[[Temptation in the Village]]

	Memoirs of the Kalda Railroad		[[Memoirs of the Kalda Railroad]]

	The Village Schoolmaster		[[The Village Schoolmaster]]

	Blumfeld, an Elderly Bachelor		[[Blumfeld, an Elderly Bachelor]]

	The Warden of the Tomb		[[The Warden of the Tomb]]

	The Hunter Gracchus		[[The Hunter Gracchus]]

	The Great Wall of China		[[The Great Wall of China]]

	Letter to his Father		[[Letter to his Father]]

	The Refusal		[[The Refusal]]

	Investigations of a Dog		[[Investigations of a Dog]]

	The Burrow		[[The Burrow]]

	Diaries 1910-1923		[[Diaries 1910-1923]]

	Letters		[[Letters]]

	The Blue Octavio Notebooks		[[The Blue Octavio Notebooks]]

	==Works Cited==		==Works Cited==

	Contemporary Authors Online. "Franz Kafka". Gale 2003. 17 Apr. 2006. [http://galenet.galegroup.com/servlet/LitRC?vrsn=3&OP=contains&locID=maco12153&srchtp=athr&ca=1&c=1&ste=6&tab=1&tbst=arp&ai=U13007810&n=10&docNum=H1000051755&ST=Franz+Kafka&bConts=16047 Franz Kafka]		*Contemporary Authors Online. "Franz Kafka". Gale 2003. 17 Apr. 2006. [http://galenet.galegroup.com/servlet/LitRC?vrsn=3&OP=contains&locID=maco12153&srchtp=athr&ca=1&c=1&ste=6&tab=1&tbst=arp&ai=U13007810&n=10&docNum=H1000051755&ST=Franz+Kafka&bConts=16047 Franz Kafka]

			*Nowack, Jeff and Ruch, Allen B. "The Modern World-Franz Kafka". 26 June 2004.17 April 2006 <www.themodernworld.com>.

	~~Nowack~~, ~~Jeff and Ruch, Allen B~~. "~~The Modern World-~~Franz Kafka". ~~26 June 2004~~.17 ~~April~~ 2006 <www.~~themodernworld~~.~~com~~>.		*Dachslager, Earl L. "A man 'made of literature'; Biography tries to pin down the elusive Franz Kafka." The Houston Chronicle 2nd STAR EDITION:12 Feb 2006: 18. Lexis Nexis. Galileo. Macon State College Libary, Macon, GA. 17 Apr. 2006 <http://www.galileo.usg.edu>

	~~Dachslager~~, ~~Earl L~~. "~~A man 'made of literature'; Biography tries to pin down the elusive~~ Franz Kafka." The ~~Houston Chronicle 2nd STAR EDITION:12 Feb 2006: 18~~. ~~Lexis Nexis~~. ~~Galileo~~. ~~Macon State College Libary, Macon, GA. 17 Apr~~. 2006 <http://www.~~galileo~~.~~usg~~.~~edu~~>		*William J. Dodd, University of Birmingham. "Franz Kafka." The Literary Encylopedia. 16 Jan. 2004. The Literary Dictionary Company. 20 April 2006 <http://www.litencyc.com/php/speople.php?rec=true&UID=2429>

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	==Works Cited==		==Works Cited==

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	== Biography ==		== Biography ==

	Franz Kafka was born in Prague on July 3,1883. Like most authors he was over looked during his short life. He was raised in a middle class Jewish family and had a very strict father, Hermann. Hermann owned a dry-goods wholesale store, he was an uneducated but industrious Czech who had married Julie Loewy, an urbane, German-speaking Jew from a slightly higher social class. “Hermann's domineering manner greatly distressed young Kafka, who found his father loud, impatient, unsympathetic, and, consequently, overwhelming and intimidating” (Contemporary). “Kafka’s most remembered childhood memory was of an incident in which he repeatedly cried from his bed for water, where then his father took him to the balcony and locked him outside” (Contemporary). Many years later this event still haunted Kafka, and in one of his later works he criticized him for his crude methods. “’For years thereafter,’ Kafka wrote, ‘I kept being haunted by fantasies of this giant of a man, my father, the ultimate judge, coming to get me in the middle of the night, and for almost no reason at all dragging me out of bed onto the pavlatch--in other words, that as far as he was concerned, I was an absolute Nothing’” (Contemporary). In 1901-1906 Kafka studied German literature and received a law degree at a German University in Prague. Kafka then goes to work for the law office of Richard Lowy in Prague and goes back to college for his doctorate degree. "In his brief lifetime, Kafka wrote some of the most orginal and influential works of the 20th century, including "The Metamorphosis" (1915), "A Hunger Artist" (1924), "The Trial" (1925), "The Castle" (1926), and "The Man Who Diseappeared" (aka "Amerika"; 1927) (Dachslager). Still not satisfied he began looking for another job and found one in 1908 at the semi-govermental Worker's Accident Insurance Institute where he remained until he retired in 1922. His works were never published until his tragic death. Kafka was a very sick man most of his life. He contacted tuberculosis which made him very weak and feable, ~~it eventually took~~ his ~~life~~ in a sanatorium near Vienna on June 3, 1924, one month short of his 41st birthday.		Franz Kafka was born in Prague on July 3,1883. Like most authors he was over looked during his short life. He was raised in a middle class Jewish family and had a very strict father, Hermann. Hermann owned a dry-goods wholesale store, he was an uneducated but industrious Czech who had married Julie Loewy, an urbane, German-speaking Jew from a slightly higher social class. “Hermann's domineering manner greatly distressed young Kafka, who found his father loud, impatient, unsympathetic, and, consequently, overwhelming and intimidating” (Contemporary). “Kafka’s most remembered childhood memory was of an incident in which he repeatedly cried from his bed for water, where then his father took him to the balcony and locked him outside” (Contemporary). Many years later this event still haunted Kafka, and in one of his later works he criticized him for his crude methods. “’For years thereafter,’ Kafka wrote, ‘I kept being haunted by fantasies of this giant of a man, my father, the ultimate judge, coming to get me in the middle of the night, and for almost no reason at all dragging me out of bed onto the pavlatch--in other words, that as far as he was concerned, I was an absolute Nothing’” (Contemporary). In 1901-1906 Kafka studied German literature and received a law degree at a German University in Prague. Kafka then goes to work for the law office of Richard Lowy in Prague and goes back to college for his doctorate degree. "In his brief lifetime, Kafka wrote some of the most orginal and influential works of the 20th century, including "The Metamorphosis" (1915), "A Hunger Artist" (1924), "The Trial" (1925), "The Castle" (1926), and "The Man Who Diseappeared" (aka "Amerika"; 1927) (Dachslager). Still not satisfied he began looking for another job and found one in 1908 at the semi-govermental Worker's Accident Insurance Institute where he remained until he retired in 1922. His works were never published until his tragic death. Kafka was a very sick man most of his life. He contacted tuberculosis which made him very weak and feable. "When a subsequent diagnosis revealed an improved condition, Kafka was so overwhelmed with happiness that he proposed marriage to Dymant. But within two weeks he suffered great pain and pleaded for his physician to administer morphine. Injections were given, and an ice pack was set on Kafka's throat. On June 3, he awoke and threw the ice pack from himself, then lapsed again into unconsciousness and death" (Contemporary). He died in a sanatorium near Vienna on June 3, 1924, one month short of his 41st birthday.

	==List of Works==		==List of Works==
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	The Metamorphosis		[[The Metamorphosis]]

	In the Penal Colony		In the Penal Colony
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	==Works Cited==		==Works Cited==

			Contemporary Authors Online. "Franz Kafka". Gale 2003. 17 Apr. 2006. [http://galenet.galegroup.com/servlet/LitRC?vrsn=3&OP=contains&locID=maco12153&srchtp=athr&ca=1&c=1&ste=6&tab=1&tbst=arp&ai=U13007810&n=10&docNum=H1000051755&ST=Franz+Kafka&bConts=16047 Franz Kafka]

	Nowack, Jeff and Ruch, Allen B. "The Modern World-Franz Kafka". 26 June 2004.17 April 2006 <www.themodernworld.com>.		Nowack, Jeff and Ruch, Allen B. "The Modern World-Franz Kafka". 26 June 2004.17 April 2006 <www.themodernworld.com>.

	Dachslager, Earl L. "A man 'made of literature'; Biography tries to pin down the elusive Franz Kafka." The Houston Chronicle 2nd STAR EDITION:12 Feb 2006: 18. Lexis Nexis. Galileo. Macon State College Libary, Macon, GA. 17 Apr. 2006 <http://www.galileo.usg.edu>		Dachslager, Earl L. "A man 'made of literature'; Biography tries to pin down the elusive Franz Kafka." The Houston Chronicle 2nd STAR EDITION:12 Feb 2006: 18. Lexis Nexis. Galileo. Macon State College Libary, Macon, GA. 17 Apr. 2006 <http://www.galileo.usg.edu>

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	== Biography ==		== Biography ==

	Franz Kafka was born in Prague on July 3,1883. Like most authors he was over looked during his short life. He was raised in a middle class Jewish family and had a very strict father, Hermann. Hermann owned a dry-goods wholesale store, he was an uneducated but industrious Czech who had married Julie Loewy, an urbane, German-speaking Jew from a slightly higher social class. “Hermann's domineering manner greatly distressed young Kafka, who found his father loud, impatient, unsympathetic, and, consequently, overwhelming and intimidating” (Contemporary). “Kafka’s most remembered childhood memory was of an incident in which he repeatedly cried from his bed for water, where then his father took him to the balcony and locked him outside” (Contemporary). Many years later this event still haunted Kafka, and in one of his later works he criticized him for his crude methods. “’For years thereafter,’ Kafka wrote, ‘I kept being haunted by fantasies of this giant of a man, my father, the ultimate judge, coming to get me in the middle of the night, and for almost no reason at all dragging me out of bed onto the pavlatch--in other words, that as far as he was concerned, I was an absolute Nothing’” (Contemporary). In 1901-1906 Kafka studied German literature and received a law degree at a German University in Prague. Kafka then goes to work for the law office of Richard Lowy in Prague and goes back to college for his doctorate degree. "In his brief lifetime, Kafka wrote some of the most orginal and influential works of the 20th century, including "The Metamorphosis" (1915), "A Hunger Artist" (1924), "The Trial" (1925), "The Castle" (1926), and "The Man Who Diseappeared" (aka "Amerika"; 1927). Still not satisfied he began looking for another job and found one in 1908 at the semi-govermental Worker's Accident Insurance Institute where he remained until he retired in 1922. His works were never published until his tragic death. Kafka was a very sick man most of his life. He contacted tuberculosis which made him very weak and feable, it eventually took his life in a sanatorium near Vienna on June 3, 1924, one month short of his 41st birthday.		Franz Kafka was born in Prague on July 3,1883. Like most authors he was over looked during his short life. He was raised in a middle class Jewish family and had a very strict father, Hermann. Hermann owned a dry-goods wholesale store, he was an uneducated but industrious Czech who had married Julie Loewy, an urbane, German-speaking Jew from a slightly higher social class. “Hermann's domineering manner greatly distressed young Kafka, who found his father loud, impatient, unsympathetic, and, consequently, overwhelming and intimidating” (Contemporary). “Kafka’s most remembered childhood memory was of an incident in which he repeatedly cried from his bed for water, where then his father took him to the balcony and locked him outside” (Contemporary). Many years later this event still haunted Kafka, and in one of his later works he criticized him for his crude methods. “’For years thereafter,’ Kafka wrote, ‘I kept being haunted by fantasies of this giant of a man, my father, the ultimate judge, coming to get me in the middle of the night, and for almost no reason at all dragging me out of bed onto the pavlatch--in other words, that as far as he was concerned, I was an absolute Nothing’” (Contemporary). In 1901-1906 Kafka studied German literature and received a law degree at a German University in Prague. Kafka then goes to work for the law office of Richard Lowy in Prague and goes back to college for his doctorate degree. "In his brief lifetime, Kafka wrote some of the most orginal and influential works of the 20th century, including "The Metamorphosis" (1915), "A Hunger Artist" (1924), "The Trial" (1925), "The Castle" (1926), and "The Man Who Diseappeared" (aka "Amerika"; 1927) (Dachslager). Still not satisfied he began looking for another job and found one in 1908 at the semi-govermental Worker's Accident Insurance Institute where he remained until he retired in 1922. His works were never published until his tragic death. Kafka was a very sick man most of his life. He contacted tuberculosis which made him very weak and feable, it eventually took his life in a sanatorium near Vienna on June 3, 1924, one month short of his 41st birthday.

	==List of Works==		==List of Works==

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	Nowack, Jeff and Ruch, Allen B. "The Modern World-Franz Kafka". 26 June 2004.17 April 2006 <www.themodernworld.com>.		Nowack, Jeff and Ruch, Allen B. "The Modern World-Franz Kafka". 26 June 2004.17 April 2006 <www.themodernworld.com>.

			Dachslager, Earl L. "A man 'made of literature'; Biography tries to pin down the elusive Franz Kafka." The Houston Chronicle 2nd STAR EDITION:12 Feb 2006: 18. Lexis Nexis. Galileo. Macon State College Libary, Macon, GA. 17 Apr. 2006 <http://www.galileo.usg.edu>

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	== Biography ==		== Biography ==

	Franz Kafka was born in Prague on July 3,1883. Like most authors he was over looked during his short life. He was raised in a middle class Jewish family and had a very strict father that he ~~looked up to~~. 1901-1906 Kafka studied German literature and received a law degree at a German University in Prague. Kafka then goes to work for the law office of Richard Lowy in Prague and goes back to college for his doctorate degree. "In his brief lifetime, Kafka wrote some of the most orginal and influential works of the 20th century, including "The Metamorphosis" (1915), "A Hunger Artist" (1924), "The Trial" (1925), "The Castle" (1926), and "The Man Who Diseappeared" (aka "Amerika"; 1927). Still not satisfied he began looking for another job and found one in 1908 at the semi-govermental Worker's Accident Insurance Institute where he remained until he retired in 1922. His works were never published until his tragic death. Kafka was a very sick man most of his life. He contacted tuberculosis which made him very weak and feable, it eventually took his life in a sanatorium near Vienna on June 3, 1924, one month short of his 41st birthday.		Franz Kafka was born in Prague on July 3,1883. Like most authors he was over looked during his short life. He was raised in a middle class Jewish family and had a very strict father, Hermann. Hermann owned a dry-goods wholesale store, he was an uneducated but industrious Czech who had married Julie Loewy, an urbane, German-speaking Jew from a slightly higher social class. “Hermann's domineering manner greatly distressed young Kafka, who found his father loud, impatient, unsympathetic, and, consequently, overwhelming and intimidating” (Contemporary). “Kafka’s most remembered childhood memory was of an incident in which he repeatedly cried from his bed for water, where then his father took him to the balcony and locked him outside” (Contemporary). Many years later this event still haunted Kafka, and in one of his later works he criticized him for his crude methods. “’For years thereafter,’ Kafka wrote, ‘I kept being haunted by fantasies of this giant of a man, my father, the ultimate judge, coming to get me in the middle of the night, and for almost no reason at all dragging me out of bed onto the pavlatch--in other words, that as far as he was concerned, I was an absolute Nothing’” (Contemporary). In 1901-1906 Kafka studied German literature and received a law degree at a German University in Prague. Kafka then goes to work for the law office of Richard Lowy in Prague and goes back to college for his doctorate degree. "In his brief lifetime, Kafka wrote some of the most orginal and influential works of the 20th century, including "The Metamorphosis" (1915), "A Hunger Artist" (1924), "The Trial" (1925), "The Castle" (1926), and "The Man Who Diseappeared" (aka "Amerika"; 1927). Still not satisfied he began looking for another job and found one in 1908 at the semi-govermental Worker's Accident Insurance Institute where he remained until he retired in 1922. His works were never published until his tragic death. Kafka was a very sick man most of his life. He contacted tuberculosis which made him very weak and feable, it eventually took his life in a sanatorium near Vienna on June 3, 1924, one month short of his 41st birthday.

	==List of Works==		==List of Works==

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	== Biography ==		== Biography ==

	Franz Kafka was born in Prague on July 3,1883. Like most authors he was over looked during his short life. He was raised in a middle class Jewish family and had a very strict father that he looked up to. 1901-1906 Kafka studied German literature and received a law degree at a German University in Prague. Kafka then goes to work for the law office of Richard Lowy in Prague and goes back to college for his doctorate degree. ~~This degree gave him~~ the ~~inspiration to write~~, "~~Wedding Prepations in the Country~~". Still not satisfied he began looking for another job and found one in 1908 at the semi-govermental Worker's Accident Insurance Institute where he remained until he retired in 1922. His works were never published until his tragic death. Kafka was a very sick man most of his life. He contacted tuberculosis which made him very weak and feable, it eventually took his life.		Franz Kafka was born in Prague on July 3,1883. Like most authors he was over looked during his short life. He was raised in a middle class Jewish family and had a very strict father that he looked up to. 1901-1906 Kafka studied German literature and received a law degree at a German University in Prague. Kafka then goes to work for the law office of Richard Lowy in Prague and goes back to college for his doctorate degree. "In his brief lifetime, Kafka wrote some of the most orginal and influential works of the 20th century, including "The Metamorphosis" (1915), "A Hunger Artist" (1924), "The Trial" (1925), "The Castle" (1926), and "The Man Who Diseappeared" (aka "Amerika"; 1927). Still not satisfied he began looking for another job and found one in 1908 at the semi-govermental Worker's Accident Insurance Institute where he remained until he retired in 1922. His works were never published until his tragic death. Kafka was a very sick man most of his life. He contacted tuberculosis which made him very weak and feable, it eventually took his life in a sanatorium near Vienna on June 3, 1924, one month short of his 41st birthday.

	==List of Works==		==List of Works==

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Biography

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	Franz Kafka was born in Prague on July 3,1883. Like most authors he was over looked during his short life. He was raised in a middle class Jewish family and had a very strict father that he looked up to. 1901-1906 Kafka studied German literature and received a law degree at a German University in Prague. Kafka then goes to work for the law office of Richard Lowy in Prague and goes back to college for his doctorate degree. This degree gave him the inspiration to write, "Wedding Prepations in the Country". Still not satisfied he began looking for another job and found one in 1908 at the semi-govermental Worker's Accident Insurance Institute where he remained until he retired in 1922. His works were never published until his tragic death. Kafka was a very sick man most of his life. He contacted tuberculosis which made him very weak and feable, it eventually took his life.		Franz Kafka was born in Prague on July 3,1883. Like most authors he was over looked during his short life. He was raised in a middle class Jewish family and had a very strict father that he looked up to. 1901-1906 Kafka studied German literature and received a law degree at a German University in Prague. Kafka then goes to work for the law office of Richard Lowy in Prague and goes back to college for his doctorate degree. This degree gave him the inspiration to write, "Wedding Prepations in the Country". Still not satisfied he began looking for another job and found one in 1908 at the semi-govermental Worker's Accident Insurance Institute where he remained until he retired in 1922. His works were never published until his tragic death. Kafka was a very sick man most of his life. He contacted tuberculosis which made him very weak and feable, it eventually took his life.

			==List of Works==
			Amerika

			The Trial

			The Castle

			The Metamorphosis

			In the Penal Colony

			Meditation

			The Judgment

			The Country Doctor

			A Hunger Artist

			Description of a Struggle

			Wedding Preparations in the Country

			The Urban World

			A Perfect Fool

			Temptation in the Village

			Memoirs of the Kalda Railroad

			The Village Schoolmaster

			Blumfeld, an Elderly Bachelor

			The Warden of the Tomb

			The Hunter Gracchus

			The Great Wall of China

			Letter to his Father

			The Refusal

			Investigations of a Dog

			The Burrow

			Diaries 1910-1923

			Letters

			The Blue Octavio Notebooks


			==Works Cited==

			Nowack, Jeff and Ruch, Allen B. "The Modern World-Franz Kafka". 26 June 2004.17 April 2006 <www.themodernworld.com>.

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	Franz Kafka was born in Prague on July 3,1883. Like most authors he was over looked during his short life. He was raised in a middle class Jewish family and had a very strict father that he looked up to. 1901-1906 Kafka studied German literature and received a law degree at a German University in Prague. Kafka then goes to work for the law office of Richard Lowy in Prague and goes back to college for his doctorate degree. This degree gave him the inspiration to write, "Wedding Prepations in the Country". Still not satisfied he began looking for another job and found one in 1908 at the semi-govermental Worker's Accident Insurance Institute where he remained until he retired in 1922. Kafka was a very sick man most of his life. He contacted tuberculosis which ~~would finally take~~ his life.		Franz Kafka was born in Prague on July 3,1883. Like most authors he was over looked during his short life. He was raised in a middle class Jewish family and had a very strict father that he looked up to. 1901-1906 Kafka studied German literature and received a law degree at a German University in Prague. Kafka then goes to work for the law office of Richard Lowy in Prague and goes back to college for his doctorate degree. This degree gave him the inspiration to write, "Wedding Prepations in the Country". Still not satisfied he began looking for another job and found one in 1908 at the semi-govermental Worker's Accident Insurance Institute where he remained until he retired in 1922. His works were never published until his tragic death. Kafka was a very sick man most of his life. He contacted tuberculosis which made him very weak and feable, it eventually took his life.