Author Bio| Franz Kafka | | Kafka lived with his quiet mother and domineering father until he was 31. He studied law at the university in Prague, where he met Max Brod, who was to become his close friend and literary executor. After graduation, Kafka worked for an insurance company and began to publish his writing. Despite several intense love affairs, he never married; in 1917 he was diagnosed with tuberculosis. He died in an Austrian sanatorium. Kafka's fictional works, which explore the depths of angst and alienation in a stubbornly non-naturalistic style, are among the masterpieces of 20th-century literature; the word "Kafkaesque"--i.e., absurd, meaningless, or irrational--has entered the English language. |
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