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Franz Kafka
Bohemian writer (–)
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Franz Kafka[b] (3 July &#;– 3 June ) was an Austrian-Czech[4] novelist and writer from Prague.
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He is widely regarded as a major figure of 20th-century literature; he wrote in German. His work fuses elements of realism and the fantastic.[5] It typically features isolated protagonists facing bizarre or surrealistic predicaments and incomprehensible socio-bureaucratic powers.
It has been interpreted as exploring themes of alienation, existential anxiety, guilt, and absurdity.[6] His best known works include the novella The Metamorphosis and the novels The Trial and The Castle.
The term Kafkaesque has entered English to describe absurd situations like those depicted in his writing.
Kafka was born into a middle-class German- and Yiddish-speaking Czech Jewish family in Prague, the capital of the Kingdom of Bohemia, which belonged to th