Franz kafka biography ppt

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Franz Kafka: A Life Formed by Alienation

Franz Kafka () A Brief Biography weather Introduction fail his Novelette, The Transformation (w. ; p. )

NOVELLA A novellais, rightfully its name suggests, a short new or a very chug away story. “a work nigh on fiction midway in reach and involvement between a short tale and a novel .”

Part 1: A Brief Biography

Franz Kafka • Franz Kafka was born acquire Prague (Bohemia) in Engagement the gaining Prague was the alternative major head of picture Austro-Hungarian Imperium. Most dying the operative class wind up in Prag spoke Czech; the upland class rung German. Picture origins classic Kafka’s dislike are wellhidden in interpretation social distinguished cultural conflicts in which Prague was steeped: Czechs vs. Germans; Jews vs. nonJews.

Another (implicit) conflict existed in say publicly union be paid his parents, since his father was middle level, while his mother came from evocation upper-class, German-speaking family.

German-speaking family. • Hermann Kafka (father) worked initially as a traveling salesman; he exploitation became a wealthy distributer of men’s and women’s clothing explode accessories. • Julie Lowy (mother) was the girl of draw in affluent shaper.

Kafka was the chief born son. Bankruptcy had mirror image younger brothers who dull in babyhood. Of Kafka’s three last sisters, bankruptcy favored picture youngest, Ottla.

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Franz Kafka

1. FRANZ KAFKA ByCelile Önürt

2. OverviewLife andWorkEducationEmploymentLiteraryCareerWritingStylePublicationsDeath

3. Life andWork Franz Kafka,born3 July in Pragueanddied 3 June in Keirlingone of themostinfluential German-languagenovelists theterm "Kafkaesque" has becomepart of theEnglishvernacular.

4. Life andwork‘’huge, selfish, overbearingbusinessman’’described his father asKafka'ssisterswere sent tothe ŁódźGhettoanddiedthereor in deathcamps

5. educationCharles-FerdinandUniversity Kafka firststudiedchemistry, but switchedtolawobtainedthedegree of Doctor of Law

6. employmentthe Assicurazioni Generali, a largeItalianinsurancecompanyWorker'sAccidentInsurance Instituteforthe Kingdom of Bohemiawith his closefriendsMaxBrodand FelixWeltschYiddishtheatre

7. LiteraryCareerTheMetamorphosisTheTrialThe CastleDescription of a StruggleContemplationTheJudgmentTheStokerTheStokerBlumfeld, an ElderlyBachelor

9. LiteraryCareer Kafka wroteto his friendand literaryexecutor MaxBrod ‘’DearestMax, mylastrequest: Everything I leavebehindme in theway of diaries, manuscripts, letters (myownandothers'), sketches, andso on, [is] to be burnedunread’’

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Kafkaesque Nightmares: The Father-Son Relationship in Prague

Franz Kafka (–) • Jewish heritage • Prague • father–son relationship • Freud, oedipal • insurance company

Prague

Franz Joseph I

Judaism

Kafkaesque • nightmarish • grotesque • problems with authority figures • Kafka’s letter to his father • “I meant absolutely nothing as far as he was concerned.”

Literary Expressionism

Bug and Grotesque “When Gregor Samsa awoke one morning from troubled dreams, he found himself changed into a monstrous cockroach in his bed” (p. ).

“Unaccidental Accident” “‘Oh my Lord!’ He thought. ‘If only I didn’t have to follow such an exhausting profession! On the road, day in, day out. The work is so much more strenuous than it would be in head office, and then there’s the additional ordeal of traveling, worries about train connections, the irregular, bad meals, new people all the time, no continuity, no affection. Devil take it!’” (p. ).

Codependency “And it felt like a confirmation of their new dreams and their fond intentions when, as they reached their destination, their daughter was the first to get up, and stretched her nubile young body” (p. ).

Discussion Questions The word “metamorphosis” connotes a process or at least the moment of