Franz was born on July 3, 1883 in a Jewish family in Prague. His father, Hermann, was a trader of gourmet goods, and mother also worked in his store. Hermann Kafka was a cruel father, he often was angry at his children, wounded them, which greatly influenced Franz - he became a locked man. Most often, he remembered how he once asked his father to bring water to him at night, and he brought him to the balcony and locked there.
Franz had two brothers, but they died before they were two years old. He also had three sisters who also suffered from parenting education. But together they tried to create their own world. At holidays Franz even arranged theatrical productions in which his sister played. Unfortunately, all three Kafka’s sisters died during the Second World War in Nazi concentration camps in Poland.
Franz was a very diligent student – he began to study at the lyceum at the age of 10 years. Imagine the training there was so complex that in a year the students had to learn by heart 467 verses. Of course, Kafka, who was not sufficiently self-confident because of parental education, also felt a lot of worries and nerves at the school. In his diaries, he said that every year he was convinced that he would fail the exam and would not be transferred to the next class.
Kafka began to write in recent years at the Lyceum.
In spite of all the excitement, in 1901, Kafka passed the exam on a maturity certificate without any effort. Franz joined the Faculty of Law at the Charles University of Prague. Kafka considered one of the most important moments in his life the day he listened to the lecture "The destiny and future of the philosophy of Schopenhauer." It was read by Max Brod, a boy a year younger than Kafka. Franz approached him after a lecture to argue for Nietzsche - and their long-standing friendship began. Between these two-young people was not in common, Brod was an extrovert, unlike Kafka. But Max discovered Kafka's path to the society, began to bring him out of the house for parties, walks. Broad was not just a friend and a link that united Kafka with the world. He was the first lover of his work.
Kafka hated his everyday work - he could not stand the boss, his mates and his clients. Franz could not arrange a private life - he was never married. He took a revenge on Felice Bauer, a girl from Berlin, and had been betrothed twice to her. Incidentally, the result of these relationships was the writing of the novel "The Process." Julia Vohritsek was the second fiance of Kafka, but he broke the betrothal with her. In 1923, Franz, along with a nineteen-year-old girl, Dora DeMant, moved to Berlin for several months to leave family and fully engage in writing work. But health has destroyed these plans. Franz had chronic illness, he suffered from migraine, dizziness, cramping, but the worst thing was tuberculosis.
Kafka died on the 3d of June, 1924 at a sanatorium near Vienna. Writer was buried in Prague, in the New Jewish cemetery in the district of Strashnice, in a joint family grave. He was only 40 years old. In the life of Kafka published only a few short stories. Before the death, the writer asked his friend, Max Brod and the girl Dora, to destroy all his manuscripts. Dora did it, but Max did not. He published his works that posthumously brought Kafka world recognition.
Franz Kafka believed that the book, like an ax, had to cut "frozen sea" in the human soul. Therefore, his characters are as we know them - heavy, pessimistic, but capable of keeping on track. An eternal memory of the talented master of the word.
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