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 carry the bars within me.
Do you realize that people don't know how to read Kafka simply because they want to decipher him? Instead of letting themselves be carried away by his unequaled imagination, they look for allegories — and come up with nothing but clichés: life is absurd (or it is not absurd), God is beyond reach (or within reach), etc. You can understand nothing about art, particularly modern art, if you do not understand that imagination is a value in itself.
This brings me back to the image of Kafka standing before a fish in the Berlin aquarium, a fish on which his gaze fell in a newly found peace after he decided not to eat animals. Kafka recognized that fish as a member of his invisible family- not as his equal, of course, but as another being that was his concern.
But what if all the tranquility, all the comfort, all the contentment were now to come to a horrifying end?
Un libro dev'essere un'ascia per il mare ghiacciato che è dentro di noi.
No writer in our time has been more isolated than Kafka, and yet few have achieved communication as well as he did.
You wouldn't believe the kind of person I could become if you wanted it.
Yet even if I manage that, one single slip, and a slip cannot be avoided, will stop the whole process, easy and painful alike, and I will have to shrink back into my own circle again.
san otkriva stvarnost za kojom predstava zaostaje.strashno potiche od zhivota – potresno od umetnosti.
Having a trial like that means losing a trial like that (Sufrir un proceso es casi haberlo perdido)
