Works by Kafka

Kafka's works include "The Hungry Artist" and "The Castle".

1. "Ein Hungerkünstler" (Ein Hungerkünstler) is a short story written by the Austrian novelist Franz Kafka. This work was published in "New Observation" in October 1922. "The Hunger Artist" describes the process of a performer who is "obsessed" with hunger art, from its glory that swept the city to being abandoned in the desert. He is never truly understood and suffers in loneliness until he dies silently.

2. "The Castle" is a novel (unfinished) written by the Czech-German novelist Franz Kafka in his later years under the rule of the Austro-Hungarian Empire (a political union composed of the Austrian Empire and Hungary). The work tells the story of the protagonist K who applied for a job as a land surveyor in the castle. After traveling long distances and crossing many snowy roads, he finally arrived at a poor village under the jurisdiction of the castle in the middle of the night.

A brief summary of Kafka’s early life

On July 3, 1883, Franz Kafka was born into a merchant family in Prague. "Kafka" means "jackdaw" in Czech, and Kafka's father's shop uses the jackdaw as its emblem. And "Kafka" means "cave bird" in Hebrew (Hebrew and Yiddish are both Jewish languages).

In 1901, Kafka entered the Karl Ferdinand German University in Prague, where he first studied chemistry, Germanic languages ??and literature, and art history, and then changed to law. In the summer of 1902, he went to Liebhe (on the Elbe River) for vacation. Meeting Brod for the first time. From 1903 to 1904, he began to write the first draft of "A Description of a Struggle". In 1907, he began to write "Preparations for a Country Marriage" and other early works (which have been lost).

In 1908, he began working for a work-related accident insurance company. In March, the work was published for the first time in "Hyperion" magazine. In 1909, two parts of "Description of a Struggle" were published in the magazine "Hyperion". Start journaling. In September, he and the Brod brothers went to Riva and Brescia, Italy, to watch air shows.

In 1910, he published a set of short prose works under the title "Observation" in the "Bohemian German Newspaper". In October, I went to Paris with the Brod brothers. In the summer of 1911, Brod traveled to Zurich, Lugano, Merano and Paris. Kafka then spent time alone near Zurich convalescent. Create "Travel Diary".