Franz Kafka
生年: July 03, 1883 – Prague, Bohemia, Austria-Hungary
Franz Kafka was a German-language writer whose fiction explored alienation, bureaucracy, guilt, and existential anxiety. Best known for The Metamorphosis, The Trial, and The Castle, he became one of the most influential figures in modern literature; his works are widely translated, and “Kafkaesque” entered common usage to describe absurd, oppressive systems.
経歴と著者の歩み
Franz Kafka was born on July 3, 1883, in Prague, then part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, into a German-speaking Jewish middle-class family. The tension between cultures, languages, and social expectations in that environment shaped much of his sensibility. He attended the rigorous Altstädter Deutsches Gymnasium and later studied law at the German branch of Charles-Ferdinand University in Prague, earning his doctorate in 1906. Law offered practical security, but writing became his inward vocation. He worked first in legal and insurance roles and then at the Workers’ Accident Insurance Institute, where he developed the precise, restrained prose for which he became known. His difficult relationship with his father, Hermann Kafka, and his habit of writing at night after office work became central facts of his life and imagination.
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"Franz Kafka was a German-language writer of visionary fiction"
— Britannica
"Simone de Beauvoir said Franz Kafka “spoke to us about ourselves."
— Simone de Beauvoir
"W. H. Auden called Franz Kafka “the Dante of the twentieth century."
— W. H. Auden
"Franz Kafka is one of the most influential writers of all time"
— University of Oxford
"Daniel Kehlmann said Franz Kafka recognized bureaucracy as a phenomenon of almost existential gravity"
— Daniel Kehlmann
"Milan Kundera placed Franz Kafka among central Europe’s four great novelists"
— Milan Kundera
"One hundred years after his death, Franz Kafka has never been more alive"
— Le Monde
"Gabriel García Márquez said Franz Kafka’s The Metamorphosis determined a new direction for his life"
— Gabriel García Márquez
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