Born in 1883, Franz Kafka’s writing is often associated with a breed of character imagining themselves in a world where the power to crush and alienate is exercised solely on the individual, where desire and destiny always lay just out of reach. Themes as wide as the totalitarian state, sexual anxiety, the dysfunctional family, and the overall collapse of society can be found in Kafka’s work. Kafka’s major works include Metamorphosis, The Trial, and The Castle. Kafka died in 1924.
