Umm Al Qura University Faculty of Social Sciences English Department 20 th Century Novel Nadia Khawandanah Franz Kafka

Franz KAFKA, ( )

The Judgement 1913

The Metamorphosis 1915

The Trial 1925

The Castle 1926

Unfinished Novel 1927 Amerika

 Posthumous Publication: Max Brod.  Translated into English by E. and W. Muir, beginning with The Trial in 1930.

Kafka's letters and diaries contain interesting insights into his complex relationship with his father and with Felice Bauer, to whom he was twice briefly engaged.

Style Characteristic of Kafka's work is the portrayal of an enigmatic reality, in which the individual is seen as lonely, perplexed, and threatened, and guilt is one of his major themes.

'Kafkaesque' is frequently used to describe work which employs similar narrative techniques, and evokes a similarly uneasy response.