Franz Kafka Article Franz Kafka, (conceived July 3, 1883, Prague, Bohemia, Austria-Hungary [now in Czech Republic]—kicked the bucket June 3, 1924, Kierling, close to Vienna, Austria), German-language essayist of visionary fiction whose works—particularly the clever Der Prozess (1925; The Preliminary) and the story Pass on Verwandlung (1915; The Transformation)— express the nerves and distance felt by numerous individuals in twentieth century Europe and North America Life Franz Kafka, the child of Julie Löwy and Hermann Kafka, a shipper, was naturally introduced to a prosperous working class Jewish family. After two siblings passed on in early stages, he turned into the oldest kid and stayed, for the remainder of his life, aware of his job as senior sibling; Ottla, the most youthful of his three sisters, turned into the relative nearest to him. Kafka firmly related to his maternal precursors in light of their otherworldliness, scholarly qualificat...