Kafka is important to us because his predicament is the predicament of modern man' W. H. Auden
Franz Kafka (1883-1924) was born into a Jewish family in Prague. In 1906 he received a doctorate in jurisprudence, and for many years he worked a tedious job as a civil service lawyer investigating claims at the state Worker's Accident Insurance Institute. He never married, and published only a few slim volumes of stories during his lifetime. Meditation, a collection of sketches, appeared in 1912; The Stoker- A Fragment in 1913; Metamorphosis in 1915; The Judgement in 1916; In the Penal Colony in 1919; and A Country Doctor in 1920. The great novels were not published until after his death from tuberculosis- America, The Trial and The Castle.
No other voice has borne truer witness to the dark of our times
*George Steiner*
He is the greatest German writer of our time. Such poets as Rilke
or such novelists as Thomas Mann are dwarfs or plaster saints in
comparison to him
*Vladimir Nabokov*
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