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     ‘The Last Days of Franz Kafka’

     and the publication of the first complete, uncensored English translation of his diaries a month before, is less straightforward than it seems. There are more obvious texts through which to tell the story of his last days. Kafka’s final diary entry was ...

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     The Financial Times

     Why we still care about Kafka

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     The Daily Telegraph

     Kafka: Making of an Icon – a kaleidoscopic look at the man behind the image

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     Kafka: Making of an Icon at the Weston Library review: ‘poignant and incredibly personal’

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2. www.lrb.co.uk › may › the-last-days-of-franz-kafkaSam Kinchin-Smith | ‘The Last Days of Franz Kafka’

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   2 days ago · The coincidence of the centenary of Kafka’s death, on 3 June, and the publication of the first complete, uncensored English translation of his diaries a month before, is less straightforward than it seems. There are more obvious texts through which to tell the story of his last days. Kafka’s ...

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4. www.britannica.com › biography › Franz-KafkaFranz Kafka | Biography, Books, The Metamorphosis, The Trial ...

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   3 days ago · Franz Kafka, German-language writer of visionary fiction whose works, especially The Trial and The Metamorphosis, express the anxieties and the alienation felt by many in 20th-century Europe and North America.

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   • His father, a materialistic man of business and a tyrant in his household, had a significant influence on Franz Kafka’s life and work. Kafka felt o...
   • Franz Kafka moved in German Jewish intellectual circles throughout his life. He received a doctorate in law in 1906 from the University of Prague....
   • Franz Kafka’s work is characterized by anxiety and alienation, and his characters often face absurd situations. He is famous for his novels The Tri...

5. www.spectator.co.uk › article › 100-years-on-franz100 years on, Franz Kafka remains a literary icon

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   14 hours ago · 2 June 2024, 6:00am. Franz Kafka is one of a handful of writers whose names have become an adjective. First coined in the 1940s, the ‘Kafkaesque’ was originally used as a byword for state ...

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7. www.nytimes.com › 2024/06/01 › artsThe Very Online Afterlife of Franz Kafka - The New York Times

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   1 day ago · The video’s creator is 25-year-old Margarita Mouka — @aquariuscat444 on TikTok, where she frequently posts about Kafka, integrating his work, his likeness and his life story into her online ...

8. kafka.orgThe Kafka Project | Biography | Kafka's Life (1883-1924)

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   3 days ago · Kafka was born into a middle-class, German-speaking Jewish family in Prague, the capital of Bohemia, a kingdom that was then part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire. His father, Hermann Kafka (1852–1931), was described by Kafka himself as "a true Kafka in strength, health, appetite, loudness of voice, eloquence, self-satisfaction, worldly dominance, endurance, presence of mind, [and] knowledge ...

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   4 days ago · The book consists of thought provoking interpretations of 24 Kafka short stories, based around entirely new and modern translations. Franz Kafka's writings have long been analysed and debated in the academic world, in search of a definitive meaning, through a plethora of interpretations.

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    Who was Franz Kafka?

    • Franz Kafka, the son of Julie Löwy and Hermann Kafka, a merchant, was born into a prosperous middle-class Jewish family. After two brothers died in infancy, he became the eldest child and remained, for the rest of his life, conscious of his role as elder brother; Ottla, the youngest of his three sisters, became the family member closest to him.

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    Who wrote 10 Kafkaesque stories?

    • Rothfeld wrote the introduction for a new anthology of short stories, “ A Cage Went in Search of a Bird: Ten Kafkaesque Stories ,” which includes works by Joshua Cohen and Tommy Orange. In many of them, Kafka’s sensibility is projected into digital labyrinths.

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    What books did Kafka write?

    • They also include other works representative of Kafka’s maturity as an artist: The Judgment, written in 1912 and published a year later; two other long stories, The Metamorphosis (published in 1915) and In der Strafkolonie (1919; In the Penal Colony ); and a collection of short prose, Ein Landarzt (1919; A Country Doctor ).

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    Why is Kafka a great fable writer?

    • Franz Kafka, German-language writer of visionary fiction whose works, especially The Trial and The Metamorphosis, express the anxieties and the alienation felt by many in 20th-century Europe and North America. Many of Kafka’s fables contain an inscrutable, baffling mixture of the normal and the fantastic.

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11. www.economist.com › culture › 2024/05/30A century after his death Franz Kafka is still in the zeitgeist

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    3 days ago · Franz Kafka was not a social person: he spent much of his time alone, trying, and often failing, to write. But on social media he is a hit. #Kafka posts on TikTok have been viewed around 2bn times ...