Kafka, the Prague
Next to James Joyce, Robert Musil and others, Franz Kafka is certainly one of the foremost writers
the century ends. This year we commemorate the eightieth anniversary of his death arise naturally in such cases, statements from a number of specialists who seek to respond to unknowns about the life of author of The Metamorphosis, The Trial, The Castle, America and many others. Franz Kafka never paid more attention to the publication of his works, because for him the important thing was to write, as this fully realized self. His friend Max Brod that we must be saved and published the Kafka's work, despite that before he died he asked for the destruction of all newspapers, short stories and novels. The danger Kafka two more chances. First under the heel of Nazi soldiers who had orders to destroy everything that was Jewish and after "the dictatorship of the proletariat" that attached to dialectical materialism called metaphysical author Kafka without any message for working people so it was registered on the black list of authors dangerous for the Communist regime. Franz Kafka's life was marked by a deep sense of insecurity which has often led him to destroy complete novels, stifled by demons who will remain nameless to us, his work has walked the trails of the strangest world of literature. Kafka himself, neither German nor communist censorship, could silence the perennial message of his work. Somewhat ironically, or perhaps curious was the fact that Franz Kafka's work was first published in French, not German original language. French intellectuals such as Albert Camus, Jean Paul Sartre, André Breton and others, discovered the genius of Kafka and his work, so they searched the dissemination of it. But surely we can safely say that the personality of Franz Kafka, discovered through his works, is a writer of exceptional psychological characteristics, moving between genius and increased insecurity and fears imaginable infused. Kafka's inner reality is beyond all imagination. Kafka was forced to develop a personality self-sufficient in the absence of support from the culture of their environment, which was rather closed and coherent A third group of scholars were inclined to maintain that Kafka can not be placed in a specific category and say that was Jewish or German, because above all was Prague. And be Prague in Kafka lived time meant having some German, some Jewish, but also some Czech. In a somewhat limited view some circles argue that writing in German can not be part of the country's cultural heritage. We must not forget that the Czechs staged great struggles for the establishment and recognition of their language. And Kafka remained in a position eccentric with respect to the Czech nationalist demonstrations. Other intellectuals of the time Kafka came across that reality, however, more easily opted for one of the options and cast strong roots in the intellectual circles Czechs, Jews or Germans. Someone said that Kafka wrote to scare away the demons, spirits, and the suffocating nightmares that beset him even when awake. Hermann Kafka was born in 1852 in Osek, South Bohemian town, within a humble family. His father was a butcher and spoke Czech at home. He was convinced that the only important thing in life was public recognition. Hermann Kafka chose the German note. Despite having studied it in school, the German Hermann Kafka was very poor, even at 30 years of age. Julie Lowy and Hermann Kafka, had six children. Franz, the eldest, and three sisters, Elli, Valli and Otla , were educated in German schools, responding to his father's obsession. Born in Prague on 3 July 1883, Franz Kafka was "a frail but healthy child," his mother once said. Born in the house (U veze) Tower No. 27, on their own line that separated the Jewish quarter and German cultures blend to mark his life and throughout his work. To Franz Kafka-life except recent years affected by the disease-only radio left the Old Town of Prague. But Kafka was not only gloom and suffering. There are just those who would deny moments of joy, fun, laughter, desire and pleasure. When her sisters grew up, the female universe was gradually transformed, by clear opposition to the whims of the virile posture of his father, a haven for the young Franz Kafka. Few works of Kafka in recognizing that despite their trauma, weakness, insecurity and disease was a seducer of large magnitudes. His loves were specific, women who left their mark on his life had name: Felice Bauer, Grete Bloch, Julie Wohryzek, and the best known and Dora Milena Jesenská Dyamant.