BiographyType: Novelist Born: 3 July 1883 Died: 3 June 1924 Born on July 3, 1883, in Prague, capital of what is now the Czech Republic, writer Franz Kafka grew up in an upper middle-class Jewish family. After studying law at the University of Prague, he worked in insurance and wrote in the evenings. In 1923, he moved to Berlin to focus on writing, but died of tuberculosis shortly after. German was his first language. In fact, despite his Czech background and Jewish roots, Kafka's identity favored German culture. His friend Max Brod published most of his work posthumously, such as "Amerika" and "The Castle". |
From a certain point onward there is no longer any turning back.
Evil does not exist; once you have crossed the threshold, all is good. Once in another world, you must hold your tongue.
Many a book is like a key to unknown chambers within the castle of one’s own self.
I think we ought to read only the kind of books that wound and stab us.
Ein Buch muß die Axt sein für das gefrorene Meer in uns.
The door could not be heard slamming; they had probably left it open, as is the custom in homes where a great misfortune has occurred.
Most men are not wicked... They are sleep-walkers, not evil evildoers.
Youth is happy because it has the capacity to see beauty. Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old.
my heart no longer beats but is a tugging muscle,
You are at once both the quiet and the confusion of my heart; imagine my heartbeat when you are in this state.
What's happened to me,' he thought. It was no dream.
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