Literary Career

“I write differently from what I speak, I speak differently from what I think, I think differently from the way I ought to think, and so it all proceeds into deepest darkness.” – Franz Kafka

Work Cited "Franz Kafka Quotes." Share Book Recommendations With Your Friends, Join Book Clubs, Answer Trivia. Web. 06 Oct. 2011. <http://www.goodreads.com/author/quotes/5223.Franz_Kafka>.

Works C i ted :

Th e g ood reads . G ood reads I n c , 2011 . www.good read s . com/ qu otes / 67118 . 4 Oc tober 2011 . .

Wi k i ped ia . Wik imed ia Fou nd at i on , I n c . n .d . 4 Oc tober 2011 .

G rea te r S u rb i ton . An d reaso 4 , b y An d reasa Vi k l ud . 5 Oc tob er 2011 .

Literary Influences Franz Kafka

“A non-writing writer is a monster courting insanity.” ― Franz Kafka

Dora Diamant Berlindistancing from family Talmud Peter Kropotkin James Hawes Jewish writing

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“A stair not worn hollow by footsteps is, regarded from its own point of view, only a boring something made of wood.”

Literary Career: Views

Andy NguyenOscar Guzman

"Brainyquote." www.BrainyQuote.com. Google, n.d. Web. 4 Oct 2011. http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/authors/f/franz_kafka.htmlparkNotes Editors. “SparkNote on The Metamorphosis.” SparkNotes.com. SparkNotes LLC. n.d.. friday. 30 Sept. 2011.Hornek, Daniel. "Kafka-Franz." www.Kafka-Franz.com. N.p., n.d. Web. 30 Sept 2011. <http://www.kafka-franz.com/kafka-Biography.htm>.

• People use “Kafkaesque” to mean senseless and sinister complexity

• Extestentilast – focus on human emotions/rel. Not science based.

• Franz was considered one of the most important and influential in 20th century (unique views)

• Ideas authoritian (felt that it was cruel and not understandable)

• Absurdist- absurdity of existence (humnan life) and finding reasons for everything.

Spotlight Metamorphosis

Marissa Rodriguez

• Known as Franz Kafka’s masterpiece.

• Lends itself to psychological, sociological or existential interpretations.

• His writing is an odd mixture of startlingly dramatic images or situations.

“Anyone who cannot come to terms with his life while he is alive needs one hand to ward off a little his despair over his fate... but with his other hand he can note down what he sees among the ruins.” – Franz Kafka

Works Citied:

“Franz Kafka-His Greatest Works-Guidance Notes” Mantax information Design. Web. 03 Oct 2011

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

• The Metamorphosis, The Trial, The Castle

Franz Kafka’s Legacy• Kafka the Musical

• Kafka’s Trial-opera

• Le procès (1947), Kafka’s Dick (1986), Kafka’s Hell-Paradise (2006), Kafka’s Second Life(2007), Putapka(1982)

• Oscar winning short film- Franz Kafka’s It’s a Wonderful Life

• Kafkaesque-” marked by a senseless, disorienting, often menacing complexity”

Works cited:• The Works and Life of Franz Kafka. Oct. 4th, 2011

<http://www.kafka-online.info/>• Franz Kafka. Wikimedia Foundation, Inc. Oct. 4th,

2011. <http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a5_QV97eYqM>

Slide by Erika Liecker and Kevin Nguyen

The Metamorphosis (1912) is Kafka’s most important short stories, his masterpiece.

The Trial (1925) is one of Kafka’s most successful novel, it was published one year after his death.

The Castle is Kafka’s final novel, he died before he had the opportunity to complete the story.

Kafka also had his diaries where he wrote about his ideas and made notes about his tormented life.

“Books are a narcotic.”

Pollitt, Heather. Franz Kafka- his greatest works. 2011. <http://www.mantex.co.uk/2009/09/19/franz-kafka-his-greatest-works> GoodReads. Franz Kafka> Quotes. December 29, 2008. < http://www.goodreads.com/author/quotes/5223.Franz_Kafka/>

Theresa Caparas