Franz Kafka, the embodiment of anxiety and solitude. His life was filled with the anguish of family, love, work, and creation. We follow the life of this existentialist literary giant. Franz Kafka was born on July 3, 1883, in Prague, Czech Republic, as the third son of Hermann Kafka (1852–1931), a merchant, and Julie Löwy (1856–1934), in a Jewish middle-class family. In Czech, “Kavka”...
How did Franz Kafka express this amidst anxiety and loneliness?
Anxiety and loneliness are themes that permeate Franz Kafka’s life and work. Through his life and his masterpiece, The Metamorphosis, we examine how he expressed the depths of the modern human psyche. The Life of Franz Kafka Franz Kafka, a German-Jewish writer, was a novelist who explored human existence, alienation, and nihilism within modern society. He is widely recognized as an...