Understanding Franz Kafka

Kafka was born in Prague, Czech Republic, back on July 3rd of 1883. He had a stressful relationship with both his parents. His dad was a very opinionated clothes retailer who often took over the household, while his mom was a devoted homemaker who didn't have the intellectual skills to understand Kafka's dreams of being a professional writer.

Kafka got his first real job at an insurance company. He hated his new job from the very beginning, and only lasted about a year there before quitting and getting a job at the Workers' Accident Insurance Institute for the Kingdom of Bohemia. He was quite the player and was described as a womanizer a lot of the time. He got engaged twice to Dora Diamant but never actually got married. 

Kafka is normally seen as Jewish, with his writing resembling Jewish Folk Lore. He is still known today as quite influential and helpful to our understanding and skill of literature. Most of his works were about his own life in some way or another. His most famous peace is Metamorphosis. After his death, a lot of his other works were published, but he wasn't super known while he was alive.

In 1917, Kafka contracted tuberculosis right as he started working on writing again. After leaving his work in Prague to go visit his little sister in a Bohemian Village called Ottla. Once he went back to Prague he got influenza in 1919 and his health started deteriorating from there. In 1922 he quit his job because of his health, and went back to his parents house. In 1924, Kafka went to the Kierling Sanatorium and died there because of his two sicknesses. 

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