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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>. | |||
Revision as of 11:45, 17 April 2006
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.
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>.