Franz Kafka
Novelist and writer
| Date of Birth | : | 03 Jul, 1883 |
| Date of Death | : | 03 Jun, 1924 |
| Place of Birth | : | Kierling |
| Profession | : | Writer, Novelist |
| Nationality | : | Kierling |
Franz Kafka was a German-speaking Bohemian Jewish novelist and writer from Prague. He is widely regarded as one of the major figures of 20th-century literature. His work fuses elements of realism and the fantastic. 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. His best known works include the novella The Metamorphosis and novels The Trial and The Castle. The term Kafkaesque has entered English to describe absurd situations like those depicted in his writing.
Quotes
Total 20 Quotes
I have spent all my life resisting the desire to end it.
He is terribly afraid of dying because he hasn’t yet lived.
You are the knife I turn inside myself; that is love. That, my dear, is love.
I dream of a grave, deep and narrow, where we could clasp each other in our arms as with clamps, and I would hide my face in you and you would hide your face in me, and nobody would ever see us any more
sleep is the most innocent creature there is and a sleepless man the most guilty.
Every thing you love is very likely to be lost, but in the end, love will return in a different way.
Even if no salvation should come, I want to be worthy of it at every moment.
The books we need are of the kind that act upon us like a misfortune, that makes us suffer like the death of someone we love more than ourselves, that make us feel as though we were on the verge of suicide, lost in a forest remote from all human habitation.
But sleep? On a night like this? What an idea! Just think of how many thoughts a blanket smothers while one lies alone in bed, and how many unhappy dreams it keeps warm.
Self-control is something for which I do not strive. Self-control means wanting to be effective at some random point in the infinite radiations of my spiritual existence.
