Franz Kafka: Quotes & Facts

By Blago Kirov

This book is an anthology of quotes from Franz Kafka and selected facts about Franz Kafka. "What do I have in common with Jews? I don't even have anything in common with myself. ""What am I doing here in this endless winter?""You are free and that is why you are lost.""A First Sign of the Beginning of Understanding is the Wish to Die.""Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old.""God gives the nuts, but he does not crack them.""Kill me, or you are a murderer." "A non-writing writer is a monster courting insanity."Kafka was born near the Old Town Square in Prague, then part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire. His family was middle-class Ashkenazi Jews.After working as a travelling sales representative, his father became a fancy goods and clothing retailer who employed up to 15 people. Kafka's mother, Julie (1856-1934), was the daughter of Jakob L?wy, a prosperous retail merchant in Podebrady, and was better educated than her husband.Kafka's parents had six children, of whom Franz was the eldest.Kafka's childhood was lonely, and the children were reared largely by a series of governesses and servants.Kafka never enjoyed attending the synagogue and went with his father only on four high holidays a year.Kafka began studying chemistry, but switched to law after two weeks. Although this field did not excite him, it offered a range of career possibilities which pleased his father.At the end of his first year of studies, Kafka met Max Brod, a fellow law student who became a close friend for life.Kafka considered Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Flaubert, Nikolai Gogol, Franz Grillparzer, and Heinrich von Kleist to be his "true blood brothers".Kafka was never married.Kafka visited brothels for most of his adult life and was interested in pornography.Kafka had close relationships with several women during his life.Kafka was a passionate reciter, who was able to phrase his speaking as if it were music.His interests included alternative medicine, modern education systems such as Montessori, and technical novelties such as airplanes and film. Writing was important to Kafka; he considered it a "form of prayer". He was highly sensitive to noise and preferred quiet when writing.Kafka considered committing suicide at least once, in late 1912.Towards the end of his life Kafka sent a postcard to his friend Hugo Bergman in Tel Aviv, announcing his intention to emigrate to Palestine. Bergman refused to host Kafka because he had young children and was afraid that Kafka would infect them with tuberculosis. Kafka was unknown during his own lifetime, but he did not consider fame important. He became famous soon after his death.Kafka finished none of his full-length novels and burned around 90 percent of his work.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1522896619
• ISBN13: 9781522896616
• Release Date: December 2015
• Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
• Length: 32 Pages
• Weight: 0.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 8.5" x 0.1" x 5.5"