119
edits
m (→Biography: fixed formatting error) |
|||
(2 intermediate revisions by 2 users not shown) | |||
Line 1: | Line 1: | ||
==Biography== | ==Biography== | ||
Due to his line of descent, Kafka became an immediate outcast in the Czechoslovakian society. To add insult to injury, his religious affiliation, Jewish, did not mesh with the anti-Semantic Catholic country in which he lived, and even Kafka's parents did not have much contact with their son, due largely to the amount of responsibility that comes with owning one's own business (Contemporary). | |||
Due to the the large amount of debts that began to pile up on his family's shoulders, Kafka retained a position in the aforementioned insurance company, still writing on the side (Contemporary). Until his retirement, Kafka worked at the insurance business (1907-23), first at an administrative position in a Prague branch of an Italian insurance company and then at the Workmen's Accident Insurance Institute of Prague. His work was highly valued at the company and during World War I his supervisors arranged for his draft deferment.(1 This is proof that he was <i>not</i> a socially inept person as some of his works suggest. However, in 1922, he left the company, no longer able to work due to the advancement of his illness. | Due to the the large amount of debts that began to pile up on his family's shoulders, Kafka retained a position in the aforementioned insurance company, still writing on the side (Contemporary). Until his retirement, Kafka worked at the insurance business (1907-23), first at an administrative position in a Prague branch of an Italian insurance company and then at the Workmen's Accident Insurance Institute of Prague. His work was highly valued at the company and during World War I his supervisors arranged for his draft deferment.(1 This is proof that he was <i>not</i> a socially inept person as some of his works suggest. However, in 1922, he left the company, no longer able to work due to the advancement of his illness. | ||
Line 25: | Line 24: | ||
'''Czech Independence''' | '''Czech Independence''' | ||
Czechoslovakia had been under the rule of the Austria-Hungarian Empire the citizens were weary of the “restriction of democratic rights in the Czech lands” (www.livingprague.com). A resistance to the oppression by the German influenced monarch built up during World War I. A lead “university professor, philosopher, and politician Tomas Masaryk” (www.livingprague.com) led the fight for Czechoslovakian independence abroad. On the home front resistance grew gradually until it was clear that “things were not in Austria-Hungary’s favor” (www.livingprauge.com). Czechoslovakia became an independent republic on October 28, 1918. | Czechoslovakia had been under the rule of the Austria-Hungarian Empire the citizens were weary of the “restriction of democratic rights in the Czech lands” (www.livingprague.com). A resistance to the oppression by the German influenced monarch built up during World War I. A lead “university professor, philosopher, and politician Tomas Masaryk” ([http://www.livingprague.com www.livingprague.com]) led the fight for Czechoslovakian independence abroad. On the home front resistance grew gradually until it was clear that “things were not in Austria-Hungary’s favor” ([http://www.livingprauge.com www.livingprague.com]). Czechoslovakia became an independent republic on October 28, 1918. | ||
==Links== | ==Links== |
edits