Franz Kafka (July 3, 1883 - June 3, 1924) was a Czech German-language novelist who worked as an insurance clerk in the Austro-Hungarian Empire. His main works include novels such as "The Trial", "The Castle" and "The Metamorphosis".

Born in 1883 to a Jewish merchant family, Kafka enrolled in the University of Prague at the age of 18 to study literature and law, and began writing in 1904, his main works are four collections of short stories and three novels. Unfortunately, most of them were not published during his lifetime, and the three chapters were not finished. He lived in the era when the Austro-Hungarian Empire was about to collapse, was deeply influenced by the philosophy of Nietzsche and Bergson, and always looked on political events. Therefore, most of his works use distorted and absurd images and symbolic intuition to express isolated and desperate individuals surrounded by a hostile social environment.

Alongside French writer Marcel Proust and Irish writer James Joyce, Kafka is known as the pioneer and master of Western modernist literature.

Alongside French writer Marcel Proust and Irish writer James Joyce, Kafka is known as the pioneer and master of Western modernist literature. Kafka was unknown and struggled alone. With the passage of time, his value was gradually recognized by people. His works caused the shock of the world and formed a "Kafka" heat in the world, which was enduring.

Kafka's life works are not many, but the influence on the later literature is extremely profound. Kafka's novels reveal an absurd scene full of irrational colors, personal, melancholy, lonely emotions, using symbolic techniques. The surrealist remnants of the 1930s and 1940s regarded him as a colleague, the absurdists of the 1940s and 1950s as a precursor, and the American "black humor" of the 1960s as a model.

Franz Kafka (July 3, 1883 - June 3, 1924) was a Czech German-language novelist who worked as an insurance clerk in the Austro-Hungarian Empire. His main works include novels such as "The Trial", "The Castle" and "The Metamorphosis".

Born in 1883 to a Jewish merchant family, Kafka enrolled in the University of Prague at the age of 18 to study literature and law, and began writing in 1904, his main works are four collections of short stories and three novels. Unfortunately, most of them were not published during his lifetime, and the three chapters were not finished. He lived in the era when the Austro-Hungarian Empire was about to collapse, was deeply influenced by the philosophy of Nietzsche and Bergson, and always looked on political events. Therefore, most of his works use distorted and absurd images and symbolic intuition to express isolated and desperate individuals surrounded by a hostile social environment.

Alongside French writer Marcel Proust and Irish writer James Joyce, Kafka is known as the pioneer and master of Western modernist literature.

Alongside French writer Marcel Proust and Irish writer James Joyce, Kafka is known as the pioneer and master of Western modernist literature. Kafka was unknown and struggled alone. With the passage of time, his value was gradually recognized by people. His works caused the shock of the world and formed a "Kafka" heat in the world, which was enduring.

Kafka's life works are not many, but the influence on the later literature is extremely profound. Kafka's novels reveal an absurd scene full of irrational colors, personal, melancholy, lonely emotions, using symbolic techniques. The surrealist remnants of the 1930s and 1940s regarded him as a colleague, the absurdists of the 1940s and 1950s as a precursor, and the American "black humor" of the 1960s as a model.