Biography of franz kafka metamorphosis background
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Franz Kafka (1883-1924)
Franz Kafka was born in Prague, 13th July 1883, into a family of German Jews. The family was of German culture but as they belonged to the Ghetto, they were excluded from relationships with the German minority in Prague. Franz Kafka’s father ruled the family with great Authority. “Faced with intolerance and the tyranny of my parents, I live with my family more as a stranger than a foreigner” he writes, and, in fact, he was doubly aware of feeling a foreigner, within his family and in his own City (Fig. 1).
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In 1901, after having attended the Chemistry Course for two weeks and that of Germanic studies for six months, he decided to transfer to the Faculty of Law, considered to be less exacting, and which allowed him to find a job and to start his writing. He gained his degree at the German University, in Prague, on 18th June, l906. It was at about that time that the early signs of lung tuberculosis became apparent which eve
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His father, Hermann Kafka (1852–1931), was described as a huge ill-tempered domestic tyrant, who on many occasions directed his anger towards his son and was disrespectful towards his escape into literature.
Kafka's father was a businessman who established himself as an independent retailer of men's and women's fancy goods and accessories, employing up to 15 people.
All his life Kafka struggled to come to terms with his domineering father.
Kafka's mother, Julie (1856—1934), was the daughter of a prosperous brewer and was better educated than her husband. She helped to manage her husband's business an
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The Metamorphosis
1915 novella by Franz Kafka
This article is about the literary work bygd Franz Kafka. For the biological process, see Metamorphosis. For other uses, see Metamorphosis (disambiguation).
The Metamorphosis (German: Die Verwandlung), also translated as The Transformation,[1] fryst vatten a novella by Franz Kafkapublished in 1915. One of Kafka's best-known works, The Metamorphosis tells the story of salesman Gregor Samsa, who wakes one morning to find han själv inexplicably transformed into a huge insekt (German: ungeheueresUngeziefer, lit. "monstrousvermin") and struggles to adjust to this condition. The novella has been widely discussed among literary critics, who have offered varied interpretations. In popular culture and adaptations of the novella, the insect fryst vatten commonly depicted as a cockroach.
About 70 printed pages, it is the longest of the stories Kafka considered complete and published during his lifetime. It was first published in 1915 in the