![]() ![]() Most of Kafka's works were published by his friend and literary executor Max Brod after Kafka's death from tuberculosis. Kafka was mostly unpublished and unrecognized during his lifetime. Because of his full-time work at the company, Kafka composed his oeuvre largely in his spare time. His most widely read books are The Trial, The Castle, and The Metamorphosis, the last of which depicts a man who wakes up one morning to discover that he has transformed into a giant insect.īorn to a middle-class family in the capital of the Kingdom of Bohemia (known today as the Czech Republic), Kafka pursued a legal education before working at an insurance company. He is best known for his signature literary sensibility, which combines the styles of realism, absurdism, surrealism, and humor with thematic interests in alienation, guilt, existentialism, and oppressive bureaucracy. Franz Kafka was a Prague-born, German-Jewish novelist and short-story writer. ![]()
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