trans., 1961), dealing again with the outsider, a son who suffers the literal and symbolic transformation into a huge, repulsive, fatally wounded insect. trans., 1945), a long short story, written in 1912, which Kafka himself considered his decisive breakthrough (it tells of a rebellious son condemned to suicide by his father) and The Metamorphosis (1915 Eng. trans., 1949), a collection of short prose pieces The Judgment (1913 Eng. This fiction included Meditation (1913 Eng. None of Kafka’s novels was printed during his lifetime, and it was only with reluctance that he published a fraction of his shorter fiction. He wrote primarily at night, the days being preempted by his job. He loved to hike, swim, and row, and during vacations he took carefully planned trips. Nevertheless, Kafka led a fairly active social life, including acquaintance with many prominent literary and intellectual figures of his era, such as the writers Franz Werfel and Max Brod. Sex in Kafka’s writings is frequently connected with dirt or guilt and treated as an attractive abomination. Sexually, he apparently oscillated between an ascetic aversion to intercourse, which he called “the punishment for being together,” and an attraction to prostitutes. None of his largely unhappy love affairs could wean him from this inner dependence though he longed to marry, he never did. Kafka lived his life in emotional dependence on his parents, whom he both loved and resented.
Kafka spent half his time after 1917 in sanatoriums and health resorts, his tuberculosis of the lungs finally spreading to the larynx. He soon found a position in the semipublic Workers’ Accident Insurance institution, where he remained a loyal and successful employee until–beginning in 1917– tuberculosis forced him to take repeated sick leaves and finally, in 1922, to retire. This allowed him to secure a livelihood that gave him time for writing, which he regarded as the essence–both blessing and curse–of his life. Kafka did well in the prestigious German high school in Prague and went on to receive a law degree in 1906. The feeling of impotence, even in his rebellion, was a syndrome that became a pervasive theme in his fiction. Kafka came from a middle-class Jewish family and grew up in the shadow of his domineering shopkeeper father, who impressed Kafka as an awesome patriarch. Virtually unknown during his lifetime, the works of Kafka have since been recognized as symbolizing modern man’s anxiety-ridden and grotesque alienation in an unintelligible, hostile, or indifferent world. June 3, 1924, has come to be one of the most influential writers of this century. Prague, Bohemia (then belonging to Austria), July 3, 1883, d. He could not completely rise to the occasion, he could not relieve the officials of all their tasks the responsibility for this last failure of his lay with him who had not left him the remnant of strength necessary for the deed….
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But he did not do so, he merely turned his head, which was still free to move, and gazed around him. now perceived clearly that he was supposed to seize the knife himself, as it traveled from hand to hand above him, and plunge it into his own breast. …Once more the odious courtesies began, the first handed the knife across K.
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