Kafka

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.

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>.