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Franz Kafka was born on July 3, 1883, in Prague, Austria-Hungary (now the Czech Republic).
* He was a German-speaking Jewish writer.
* He studied law at Charles University in Prague, but never practiced law.
* He worked as an insurance clerk for most of his life.
* He is best known for his short stories and novels, which explore themes of alienation, bureaucracy, and the absurdity of the human condition.
* His works were not published during his lifetime, but they have since become classics of modern literature.
* He died of tuberculosis on June 3, 1924, at the age of 40.

Here are some additional details about Kafka's life and work:

* He was born into a middle-class Jewish family.
* He was a shy and introverted child, and he often felt like an outsider.
* He was deeply interested in philosophy and religion, and he was particularly drawn to the works of Kierkegaard and Dostoevsky.
* His work is often characterized by its dark and surreal imagery, and its exploration of the themes of alienation, bureaucracy, and the absurdity of the human condition.
* His works have had a major influence on modern literature, and he is considered one of the most important writers of the 20th century.

L'éternité, c'est long ... surtout vers la fin.

Franz Kafka

I need solitude for my writing; not 'like a hermit' - that wouldn't be enough - but like a dead man.

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Writing is utter solitude, the descent into the cold abyss of oneself.

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We need the books that affect us like a disaster, that grieve us deeply, like the death of someone we loved more than ourselves, like being banished into forests far from everyone, like a suicide. A book must be the axe for the frozen sea inside us.

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