22 Facts About Kafkaesque

Kafkaesque's best known works include the short story "The Metamorphosis" and novels The Trial and The Castle.

The term Kafkaesque has entered English to describe situations like those found in his writing.

Kafkaesque trained as a lawyer and after completing his legal education was employed full-time by an insurance company, forcing him to relegate writing to his spare time.

Kafkaesque studied the latter at the gymnasium for eight years, achieving good grades.

Kafkaesque would compile and compose the annual report on the insurance institute for the several years he worked there.

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Kafkaesque later attempted to join the military but was prevented from doing so by medical problems associated with tuberculosis, with which he was diagnosed in 1917.

Kafkaesque felt comfortable there and later described this time as perhaps the best period of his life, probably because he had no responsibilities.

Kafkaesque's became his lover and sparked his interest in the Talmud.

Kafkaesque explored details, the inconspicuous, in depth and with such love and precision that things surfaced that were unforeseen, seemingly strange, but absolutely true .

Kafkaesque was highly sensitive to noise and preferred absolute quiet when writing.

Kafkaesque was deeply fascinated by the Jews of Eastern Europe, who he thought possessed an intensity of spiritual life that was absent from Jews in the West.

Kafkaesque's contemporaries included numerous Jewish, Czech, and German writers who were sensitive to Jewish, Czech, and German culture.

Kafkaesque went to Dr Hoffmann's sanatorium in Kierling just outside Vienna for treatment on 10 April, and died there on 3 June 1924.

Kafkaesque's body was brought back to Prague where he was buried on 11 June 1924, in the New Jewish Cemetery in Prague-Zizkov.

Kafkaesque rose to fame rapidly after his death, particularly after World War II.

Kafkaesque wrote the story "" in 1904; he showed it to Brod in 1905 who advised him to continue writing and convinced him to submit it to Hyperion.

Kafkaesque did not complete the novel, although he finished the final chapter.

Kafkaesque took many papers, which remain unpublished, with him in suitcases to Palestine when he fled there in 1939.

Kafkaesque's released or sold some, but left most to her daughters, Eva and Ruth, who refused to release the papers.

Kafkaesque's characters are trapped, confused, full of guilt, frustrated, and lacking understanding of their surreal world.

Term "Kafkaesque" is used to describe concepts and situations reminiscent of Kafka's work, particularly and Die Verwandlung .

Characters in a Kafkaesque setting often lack a clear course of action to escape a labyrinthine situation.