Kafka graduated in law on June 18, 1906, and did a compulsory year of unpaid service as a judicial assistant in the civil and criminal courts.Īt the end of 1907, Kafka began working for a large Italian insurance company. In 1901 he graduated from the Altstädter Deutsches Gymnasium, the rigorous, classics-oriented high school with eight levels.Īfter high school, he entered the Deutsche Karl-Ferdinands-Universität, where he initially decided to study chemistry, but after two weeks he switched to law. The children were largely raised by a series of governesses and servants.įrom 1889 to 1893, Franz attended the Deutsche Knabenschule German boys’ elementary school in Prague. She helped manage her husband’s business and worked in it up to twelve hours a day. Kafka’s mother, Julie (1856-1934), was the daughter of a prosperous brewer and was more educated than her husband. Throughout his life, Kafka struggled to reconcile with his domineering father. His father, Hermann Kafka (1852-1931), was described as a great, short-tempered domestic tyrant, who on many occasions directed his anger at his son and was disrespectful of his flight into literature. He had two younger brothers who died in infancy and three younger sisters, who perished in concentration camps. But first, we tell you a little of the history of this great writer.įranz Kafka was born into a middle-class German-speaking Jewish family on Jin Prague, Bohemia, now the Czech Republic. Today we present to you 8 books by Franz Kafka in PDF format for your enjoyment.
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