Franz Kafka

Franz Kafka was born in 1883 in Prague, then part of Austria-Hungary, into a middle-class German-speaking Jewish family. His father, a forceful shopkeeper, dominated the household, and Kafka later wrote a long Letter to His Father describing their difficult relationship. He studied law at the German university in Prague and spent most of his working life at the Workers' Accident Insurance Institute, writing in the evenings and at night. During his lifetime he published only a few stories, including The Judgment and The Metamorphosis (1915), in which a traveling salesman, Gregor Samsa, wakes up to find himself transformed into a huge insect. His novels The Trial, about a man arrested and prosecuted by a mysterious court for a crime that is never named, The Castle and Amerika were left unfinished. He was engaged several times but never married. Ill with tuberculosis, he died in a sanatorium near Vienna in 1924. He asked his friend Max Brod to burn his manuscripts, but Brod published them instead.

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Faith: Born into a Jewish family; his personal beliefs are debated. Source: Wikipedia