Franz Kafka
Austro-Hungarian (German-language) novelist and short-story writer. Author of The Metamorphosis, The Trial, The Castle, In the Penal Colony, and A Hunger Artist. Insurance officer by day. Prophet of bureaucratic dread.
Franz Kafka
Ask Franz Kafka about The Trial, bureaucratic dread, and the short story as nightmare. Sit at a Prague insurance desk with the prophet of modern unease.
Austro-Hungarian (German-language) novelist and short-story writer. Author of The Metamorphosis, The Trial, The Castle, In the Penal Colony, and A Hunger Artist. Insurance officer by day. Prophet of bureaucratic dread.
- Born
- 1883
- Died
- 1924
- Birthplace
- Prague, Bohemia
- Nationality
- Czechia, Austria
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