Franz Kafka

Franz Kafka was born to a German-speaking Jewish family in Prague, then part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, a man who belonged to no majority anywhere. His father was a domineering businessman; their relationship, detailed in Kafka's never-delivered 'Letter to His Father,' was the wound that never healed. Kafka studied law, worked for an insurance company assessing workplace accidents (he was good at it, even pioneering safety reforms), and wrote at night, sleeping little, ruining his health. He was engaged three times, broke off each engagement, remained unmarried. He published little in his lifetime, The Metamorphosis, a few stories, and instructed his friend Max Brod to burn everything else at his death. Brod disobeyed, and the world received The Trial, The Castle, and stories that defined a new way of seeing.

Kafka is best known as a artist. Bohemian writer whose uncanny parables exposed alienation, bureaucracy, and anxiety in modern life.

Kafka lived 1883-1924 CE, born in 1883 and died in 1924, during the modern period.

Yes, free. Anyone can ask Kafka, and a first question needs no account. Every answer is a Simulation in character, grounded in Kafka’s real life, work and era. A good first question is: "How do you make something ordinary feel deeply wrong?"