At the end of the twentieth century a survey was conducted on editors and writers from all over the world, who were asked who they considered the most important writer of the whole millennium, so the winner, by a large majority, it was Franz Kafka, heir to Shakespeare, Goethe and Cervantes who left humanity with an impressive work.
Kafka’s influence is so great that the term?Kafkiano, referring to absurd, oppressive and agonizing situations, was one of those writers capable of creating a literary world with its own atmosphere, unique codes and a particular, brutal and poetic logic.
“Literature is always an expedition to the truth” – Franz Kafka-
One of the most striking aspects of his work is his intellectual honesty, Franz Kafka was neither a pretentious writer nor a writer, in fact, he even asked his friend Max Brod to burn all his work, but fortunately he did not and did not. It is thanks to this friendship that we now know Kafka’s texts.
He became famous over time, not through the intervention of a sponsor or through meticulous marketing work, but through the unique quality of each line.
Franz Kakfa was born in Prague, now the Czech Republic and the Austro-Hungarian empire in his day, on 3 July 1883. Su father, Hermann, came from a family of butchers, made his own fortune and held a prominent position in Franz’s birth. Her mother, Julie, came from a very wealthy family and also had a better education than her husband. However, this has little influence on your children’s education.
Kafka was the eldest of six siblings, but two of them, also men, died in the first year of life, and eventually Franz and three sisters survived. Maybe that made your father particularly authoritarian and authoritarian with him. The father is one of the main axes of his literary work.
He studied at two important schools, characterized by his rigor and Jewish lineage. When Franz Kafka was just a teenager, he began writing, although he destroyed most of his work in those years. He became a member of a group called Escola Book, an anti-clerical character. There he began to read about philosophy, socialism and atheism.
Franz Kafka initially began studying chemistry at university, but led a grey life, however, he soon dropped out of his career. His father then forced him to study law, although Franz did not want it. During his time in college, he met his great friend Max Brod, whom he was close to until and even after his death. kafka’s writings are not anonymous.
After graduating from college, Franz Kafka worked in the offices of several lawyers, quickly found a part-time job at an insurance company, barely earning a salary that would allow him to survive, but on the other hand, this job gave him time to do what he liked best: write. That’s why he remained there until 1917, when he contracted tuberculosis. He is said to have liked to drink un pasteurized milk and may have caused the disease.
During these years, Franz Kafka had stormy relationships with the women who went through his life. There were constant loves that began, often through letters, and soon ended suddenly for no clear reason. one of her great loves, Felice Bauer, was indifferent when she shared with her “Metamorphosis”, an eternal work.
From 1917 until his death, Franz Kafka entered and left several sanatoriums periodically; He lived for a time in Germany, between 1920 and 1923, trying to get away from family life that tormented him so much, but due to severe pneumonia he had to return to his father in 1924.
Once there, the disease got worse. He had to return to the sanatorium and then had a tuberculosis attack on the larynx, suffered greatly in the weeks leading up to his death, which finally occurred in June 1924, when he was only 41 years old.
Kafka has left many stories, as well as several novels. Among his works are “The Process”, “The Metamorphosis”, “The Castle” and many others. In addition, he left beautiful testimonies in his correspondence with his sister Ottla, Max Brod and Felice, among others. His work is truly immortal.