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Betrachtung Franz Kafka - Franz Kafkas erstes Buch, erscheinen 1912 im Ernst Rowohlt Verlag, Berlin, besteht auch achtzehn kurzen Erzählungen und Texten. Das Büchlein wird, dem Wunsch des Autors entsprechend, in einem besonders großen Schriftgrad gedruckt, »und damit ist«, wie Max Brod bemerkt, »durch einen jener seltenen Zufälle, die im Sinne Schopenhauers nichts Zufälliges mehr an sich haben, der innerste Charakter dieser kleinen Prosa eigentlich unübertrefflich zum Ausdruck gebracht«.

Franz Kafka was one of the major German-language fiction writers of the 20th century. A middle-class Jew based in Prague, his unique body of writing many incomplete and most published posthumously has become amongst the most influential in Western literature. Kafka's works including the stories Das Urteil (1913, 'The Judgement'), In der Strafkolonie (1920, 'In the Penal Colony'); the novella Die Verwandlung ('The Metamorphosis'); and unfinished novels Der Prozess ('The Trial') and Das Schloß ('The Castle') have come to embody the blend of absurd, surreal and mundane which gave rise to the adjective 'kafkaesque'.

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Franz Kafka was one of the major German-language fiction writers of the 20th century. A middle-class Jew based in Prague, his unique body of writing many incomplete and most published posthumously has become amongst the most influential in Western literature. Kafka's works including the stories Das Urteil (1913, "The Judgement"), In der Strafkolonie (1920, "In the Penal Colony"); the novella Die Verwandlung ("The Metamorphosis"); and unfinished novels Der Prozess ("The Trial") and Das Schloß ("The Castle") have come to embody the blend of absurd, surreal and mundane which gave rise to the adjective "kafkaesque".