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From: Monarch Notes
Date: 19630101
Author:Kafka, Franz

Kafka, Franz
Monarch Notes
01-01-1963
Introduction

Biography: General Outline:

Franz Kafka was born in Prague on July 3, 1883, into a middle-class
Jewish family. After receiving his doctorate in law in 1906 at the German
University, he worked for the Austrian government in a job dealing with
workmen's compensation. He grew up with an increasing sense of inadequacy,
mainly due to his father's dominant personality, and this factor contributed
greatly to his failure to get married. Falling into ill health, he spent a
considerable time in various sanatoriums. His official position with the
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