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    Franz Kafka was a German-speaking Bohemian Jewish novelist and short story writer regarded as one of the major figures of 20th century literature. His works fused elements of realism and fantasy, featuring isolated protagonists facing surreal predicaments and bureaucratic powers, exploring themes of alienation, anxiety, guilt, and absurdity. Born in Prague in 1883, Kafka worked as a lawyer while writing in his spare time. During his life, little of his work was published and he died of tuberculosis at age 40 in 1924. His friend Max Brod ignored Kafka's instructions to destroy his unfinished works, allowing them to be published and hugely influence subsequent writers.

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    Franz Kafka was a German-speaking Bohemian Jewish novelist and short story writer regarded as one of the major figures of 20th century literature. His works fused elements of realism and fantasy, featuring isolated protagonists facing surreal predicaments and bureaucratic powers, exploring themes of alienation, anxiety, guilt, and absurdity. Born in Prague in 1883, Kafka worked as a lawyer while writing in his spare time. During his life, little of his work was published and he died of tuberculosis at age 40 in 1924. His friend Max Brod ignored Kafka's instructions to destroy his unfinished works, allowing them to be published and hugely influence subsequent writers.

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    Franz Kafka was a German-speaking Bohemian Jewish novelist and short story writer regarded as one of the major figures of 20th century literature. His works fused elements of realism and fantasy, featuring isolated protagonists facing surreal predicaments and bureaucratic powers, exploring themes of alienation, anxiety, guilt, and absurdity. Born in Prague in 1883, Kafka worked as a lawyer while writing in his spare time. During his life, little of his work was published and he died of tuberculosis at age 40 in 1924. His friend Max Brod ignored Kafka's instructions to destroy his unfinished works, allowing them to be published and hugely influence subsequent writers.

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    Franz Kafka[a] (3 July 1883 – 3 June 1924) was a German-speaking Bohemian

    Jewish novelist and short-story writer, widely regarded as one of the major figures of
    20th-century literature. His work, which fuses elements of realism and the fantastic,[4]
    typically features isolated protagonists facing bizarre or surrealistic predicaments and
    incomprehensible socio-bureaucratic powers, and has been interpreted as exploring
    themes of alienation, existential anxiety, guilt, and absurdity.[5] His best known works
    include "Die Verwandlung" ("The Metamorphosis"), Der Process (The Trial), and
    Das Schloss (The Castle). The term Kafkaesque has entered the English language to
    describe situations like those found in his writing.[6]

    Kafka was born into a middle-class, German-speaking Jewish family in Prague, the
    capital of the Kingdom of Bohemia, then part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, today
    the capital of the Czech Republic. He trained as a lawyer and after completing his
    legal education was employed full-time by an insurance company, forcing him to
    relegate writing to his spare time. Over the course of his life, Kafka wrote hundreds of
    letters to family and close friends, including his father, with whom he had a strained
    and formal relationship. He became engaged to several women but never married. He
    died in 1924 at the age of 40 from tuberculosis.

    Few of Kafka's works were published during his lifetime: the story collections
    Betrachtung (Contemplation) and Ein Landarzt (A Country Doctor), and individual
    stories (such as "Die Verwandlung") were published in literary magazines but
    received little public attention. In his will, Kafka instructed his executor and friend
    Max Brod to destroy his unfinished works, including his novels Der Process, Das
    Schloss and Der Verschollene (translated as both Amerika and The Man Who
    Disappeared), but Brod ignored these instructions. His work has influenced a vast
    range of writers, critics, artists, and philosophers during the 20th and 21st centuries.

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