Kafka
...illness and family on his works
2. Kafka's works in existentialistic view
2.1. Brief summery of existentialism
2.2. Existentialism in The Metamorphosis
3. Kafka as a surrealist writer
3.1. Brief summery of surrealism
3.2The Metamorphosis as a surrealistic work
Introduction
This paper points to study Kafka's life himself and The Metamorphosis in existentialistic and surrealistic view.
At first, in this paper, life of Kafka and his illness and also its effects on his works are on view. Then a view on existentialism and surrealism historical backgrounds and their uses in The Metamorphosis are maintained.
Franz Kafka was born in Prague on July 3, 1883, the first child of German Jewish parents, Herman and Julie Kafka. Herman owned a shop below where the family lived in Prague's House of the three kings.
He was ill-tempered and disrespectful towards his son's escape into literature and pursuit of writing and proved to be an ongoing source of conflict and despair in many Kafka's works. As Kafka portrayed him in Letter to my Father, he was a strict and largely unsympathetic man.
Kafka became the eldest and only son when his two brothers died in infancy and he was excruciatingly aware of this role in the family for the rest of his life.
Kafka rebelled against his father's materialism and often wrote metaphorically of the struggle to overcome a dismayingly gargantuan, overpowering and practically suffocating force, much like his own timid and shy self in relation to his father.
In 1893, Franz began attending the German Gymnasium of Prague. He had his Bar Mitzvah in 1896 and graduated from his German high school in 1901.From 1901 to 1906, Kafka studied law at Charles Ferdinand University, a German college in Prague. In 1902 Kafka met Max Brod who would became his...
View Full Essay
