Franz Kafka was born near the Church of St Nicholas in the Old Town, when the neighbourhood was considered poor and on the outskirts of the Jewish ghetto. The author's birthplace was destroyed by fire, leaving only a stunningly lovely door. A plaque next to the house reads, "Franz Kafka was born here on July 3, 1883".
F. Kafka was a Jewish prose writer who wrote in German. The future author was born and raised in Prague into an affluent household. His dominating father, who valued only material success, job advancement, and reputation, was one of the most important figures in Kafka's life and creative output. His father had a big influence on the writer, but he was also hostile to his son's desire to be an artist, instilling in him feelings of guilt and insecurity.
Unlike another prominent Prague writer, Rainer Maria Rilke, Kafka remained devoted to his birthplace. After earning his legal degree from the University of Prague, he worked in different insurance offices while also writing extensively at night and on weekends. Despite his double life, he was proactive, popular, and respected by his coworkers. His national and cultural identity were also contradictory: Kafka felt disconnected from the traditional Jewish community because his family was only formally observant. He sympathized with the Czechs and spoke Czech, but the Germans were the majority in Prague at the time, and his Jewish heritage stopped him from totally identifying with them.
This is reflected in his work: loneliness and the yearning for understanding, the search for community, and the fear of losing one's independence are major themes in Kafka's writing. Kafka's mature work is described as fantastical realism. Kafka's best-known father-son story, "The Metamorphosis" (1915), illustrates not only the hero's mental suffering, but also the change in his physical condition and how his family and society react to this transition.
The writer, who suffered from tuberculosis and lived to the age of 41, is regarded as one of the most prominent writers of the first part of the twentieth century, if not the entire century.
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