Franz Kafka

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This paper details the short life of Franz Kafka whom critics and literary historians labeled an existentialist comparable to Kierkegaard and Dostoevsky. It discusses Kafka's childhood which was the source of much of his unhappiness and determined the subject matter and content of his writing. This paper also analyzes Kafka's more popular works including "Metamorphosis" and "Amerika."

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"He had already written a number of weird short stories, "The Judgment" - about an Oedipus complex that must have had him put part of his own personal agony into the characters- was the best known. Yet, he was so unsure of his writing, his talent, and his being accepted as a writer by others that none of his three novels, including "Amerika", "The Trial" and "The Castle" were even submitted to publishers. In his Will, he ordered his friend, Max Brod, to burn them, which Brod, of course, did not do."

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