Franz Kafka

Franz Kafka was born in 1883 in Prague, into a German-speaking Jewish family of the lower middle class. He began writing his first texts in 1904. In 1906, he completed his university studies, earning a doctorate in Law. During his lifetime, he published only seven small books and some articles in magazines. Among these small books and texts, the following stands out. The Metamorphosis, which came to light in 1915. This short novel would establish itself as one of his landmark works. On June 3, 1924, succumbing to tuberculosis diagnosed in 1917, he died in Kierling, a few kilometers from Vienna, leaving behind three fragmentary novels, which would be published posthumously by his friend and executor Max Brod: The Process (1925), The Castle (1926) and America (1927), which were followed by volumes containing short stories, letters, and diaries. His work, centered on the lonely modern man, a prisoner of an absurd life, would become one of the most influential in the literary world of the 20th century.