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Franz Kafka was a prominent and influential German-language writer of novels and short stories of late 19th century and early twentieth century. Kafka strongly influenced genres such as existentialism. His name and style of writing has lent itself to the word Kafkaesque, which signifies the oppressive, bizarre, illogical and nightmarish qualities of his literary production. Having been born and brought up in a middle class German speaking Jewish household, Franz was the eldest of six children. His father was a tyrant and never respected Franz’s departure into literature. His father was portrayed as an antagonist for many of his stories. Kafka faced isolation not only in his family but in the whole community of Prague too, thanks to German-speaking people being a minority there. Being a jew, he was generally hated in the community (anti-semitism). His complicated network of identities and thoughts are usually considered the source for many of his sophisticated literary works. Kafka graduated from the Altstädter Gymnasium, the rigorous classics-oriented secondary school with eight g...

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