Pagine1883–1924 · Prague (then Austria-Hungary) · also known as Kafka
Franz Kafka was a German-speaking Jewish writer from Prague who worked as a lawyer for a workers’ accident insurance institute and wrote at night. In The Metamorphosis (1915) a travelling salesman wakes up transformed into a giant insect; in The Trial a man is arrested for a crime no one will name. He asked his friend Max Brod to burn his manuscripts after his death; Brod refused, and published The Trial (1925), The Castle (1926) and Amerika. “Kafkaesque” is now a word in every major language.
Begin with The Metamorphosis.
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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe · Friedrich Schiller · Brothers Grimm · E. T. A. Hoffmann · Theodor Fontane · Thomas Mann · Hermann Hesse · Erich Maria Remarque
Franz Kafka was a German-speaking Jewish writer from Prague who worked as a lawyer for a workers’ accident insurance institute and wrote at night. In The Metamorphosis (1915) a travelling salesman wakes up transformed into a giant insect; in The Trial a man is arrested for a crime no one will name.
The Metamorphosis is usually considered Franz Kafka’s best-known work, followed by The Trial, The Castle, A Country Doctor.
Most readers start with The Metamorphosis.
Both refer to the same writer.
Yes — 2 of Franz Kafka’s books are free to read online in Pagine, the free e-reader and reading tracker.