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Franz Kafka

Born

in Prague, Bohemia, Austria-Hungary, Czech Republic

July 03, 1883

Died

June 03, 1924

Genre

Fiction, Philosophy, Short Stories

Influences

Franz Werfel, Knut Hamsun, Robert Walser, Anton Chekhov, Søren Kierkeg ...more

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Prague-born writer Franz Kafka wrote in German, and his stories, such as " The Metamorphosis " (1916), and posthumously published novels, including The Trial (1925), concern troubled individuals in a nightmarishly impersonal world.

Jewish middle-class family of this major fiction writer of the 20th century spoke German. People consider his unique body of much incomplete writing, mainly published posthumously, among the most influential in European literature.

His stories include "The Metamorphosis" (1912) and " In the Penal Colony " (1914), whereas his posthumous novels include The Trial (1925), The Castle (1926) and Amerika (1927).

Despite first language, Kafka also spoke fluent Czech. Later, Kafka acquired some knowledge of ...more

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Average rating: 3.91 · 2,093,187 ratings · 110,371 reviews · 3,237 distinct works • Similar authors

	The Metamorphosis 3.89 avg rating — 1,290,178 ratings — published 1915 — 2522 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Trial 3.95 avg rating — 366,326 ratings — published 1925 — 537 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Castle 3.92 avg rating — 70,079 ratings — published 1926 — 968 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Letter to His Father by Franz Kafka, Ernst Kaiser (Translator), Gerda Meijerink (Translator) 4.03 avg rating — 50,209 ratings — published 1919 — 514 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Amerika by Franz Kafka, Willa Muir (Translator), Edwin Muir (Translator), Klaus Mann (Preface), E.L. Doctorow (Foreword) 3.74 avg rating — 32,386 ratings — published 1927 — 658 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Complete Stories by Franz Kafka, John Updike (Foreword), Nahum N. Glatzer (Editor) 4.33 avg rating — 27,790 ratings — published 1911 — 180 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	In the Penal Colony 3.93 avg rating — 29,933 ratings — published 1918 — 494 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	A Hunger Artist by Franz Kafka, Helen Vlcnovska (Illustrator), Kevin Blahut (Translator) 4.10 avg rating — 21,116 ratings — published 1924 — 202 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Metamorphosis, In the Penal Colony, and Other Stories: The Great Short Works of Franz Kafka by Franz Kafka, Anne Rice (Foreword), Joachim Neugroschel (Translator), Willa Muir (Translator), Edwin Muir (Translator) 4.09 avg rating — 20,327 ratings — published 1915 — 35 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Letters to Milena by Franz Kafka, Philip Boehm (translator), Aarno Peromies (Translator), Milena Jesenská (Contributor) 3.91 avg rating — 21,171 ratings — published 1952 — 20 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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The Trial by Franz Kafka, 1925, 255 pages

56 votes, 16.7%

Alias Grace by Margaret Atwood, 1996, 468 pages

41 votes, 12.2%

Chess Story by Stefan Zweig, 1941, 104 pages

35 votes, 10.4%

The Life and Adventures of Santa Claus by L. Frank Baum, 1902, 224 pages

34 votes, 10.1%

My Ántonia by Willa Cather, 1918, 232 pages

26 votes, 7.8%

Midnight's Children by Salman Rushdie, 1981, 647 pages

26 votes, 7.8%

A Prayer for Owen Meany by John Irving, 1989, 637 pages

25 votes, 7.5%

I, Claudius by Robert Graves, 1934, 468 pages

23 votes, 6.9%

We by Yevgeny Zamyatin, 1924, 225 pages

20 votes, 6.0%

Possession by A.S. Byatt, 1990, 555 pages

19 votes, 5.7%

Corelli's Mandolin by Louis de Bernières, 1994, 437 pages

17 votes, 5.1%

So Big by Edna Ferber, 1924, 376 pages

5 votes, 1.5%

Angle of Repose by Wallace Stegner, 1971, 569 pages

5 votes, 1.5%

The Third Policeman by Flann O'Brien, 1967, 200 pages

3 votes, 0.9%

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