![]() The father also wanted the son to know and to appreciate the Jewish side of the family history, a factor which tended to bring Kafka and his father into conflict for Franz had a very different view of Jewishness, a point brought out in his famous letter to his father, written in November 1919.įrom 1893 to 1901, Kafka attended the German gymnasium, after which he studied jurisprudence at the Karl-Ferdinand University. Although his parents spoke Czech in their native village, they did everything they could to ensure that their son had a good education, and in particular, that he could speak and write good German – like the privileged German-speaking minority in Prague. Born into a Jewish family in Prague in 1883, Franz Kafka was the son of a prosperous self-made businessman. ![]() The uniqueness of Franz Kafka (1883–1924) stems, in large measure, from the intersection of writing and lived experience. ![]()
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