Bio
Franz Kafka was a Prague-born German-language writer of Jewish background whose spare, uncanny fiction reshaped modern storytelling. His major works—most famously The Metamorphosis, The Trial, and The Castle—feature isolated protagonists caught in surreal, often nightmarish encounters with impenetrable bureaucracies and existential dread, giving rise to the term "Kafkaesque." Though he published little during his life and left many manuscripts unfinished, his friend and literary executor Max Brod brought his work to the world, sparking a rapid posthumous rise to prominence. Kafka’s blend of realism and the fantastical, razor-sharp psychological insight, and darkly comic fables have profoundly influenced writers, philosophers, filmmakers, and critics, securing his place as a defining voice of twentieth-century literature.
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