Franz Kafka

Kafka, Franz

Anarchist-influenced writer whose works often satirised the absurdities of bureaucracy.

The Trial - Franz Kafka

Kafka by Warhol

Franz Kafka's seminal novel, telling the tale of Joseph K, a respectable functionary in a bank, who is suddenly arrested and must defend his innocence against a charge about which he can get no information.

Text originally from Project Gutenberg. Available as a pdf file below.

Kafka, Franz, 1883-1924

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A short biography of the anarchist-influenced writer whose name spawned an adjective for the absurdities of bureaucratic power.

“Our laws are not generally known; they are kept secret by the small group of nobles who rule us … for the laws were made to the advantage of the nobles from the very beginning, they themselves stand above the laws” (Kafka, The Problem of Our Laws)

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