'''Franz Kafka''' (July 3, 1883 – June 3, 1924) was a [[Bohemia]]n [[author]] (writing in [[German]]) and [[attorney]] who wrote [[short story|short stories]] and [[novel]]s illustrating how humans are alienated from a hostile, unintelligible and indifferent modern world. Most of his fiction involves protagonists caught in a nightmarish, often-bureaucratic situation that they cannot hope to resolve or escape from.<ref>The New American Desk Encyclopedia, Penguin Group, 1989</ref> | '''Franz Kafka''' (July 3, 1883 – June 3, 1924) was a [[Bohemia]]n [[author]] (writing in [[German]]) and [[attorney]] who wrote [[short story|short stories]] and [[novel]]s illustrating how humans are alienated from a hostile, unintelligible and indifferent modern world. Most of his fiction involves protagonists caught in a nightmarish, often-bureaucratic situation that they cannot hope to resolve or escape from.<ref>The New American Desk Encyclopedia, Penguin Group, 1989</ref> |