Franz Kafka

Born 1883 in Prague in a Jewish family. His first language was German, also he was fluent in Czech. He belongs to the most important writers of the 20th century. He wrote short stories and novels.

Although he was Jewish from Prague, he belongs to the German writers, because all his writting is written in German.

Franka's works are filled with black humor and influences of existencialism and modernism.

He became renown posthumously when his three major works were published: The Trial in 1925, The Castle in 1926 and America 1927.

The Trial
is a story of a man who is arrested and prosecuted without knowing the merit of his crime. The novel describes his struggle with authority and bureaucracy.

The Castle
is about alienation of people in modern society. The whole novel is dark and surreal.