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Writer Franz Kafka was the eldest son of an upper middle-class Jewish family who was born on July 3, 1883, in Prague, the capital of Bohemia, a kingdom that was a part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire.
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In 1906 Kafka completed his law degree and embarked on a year of unpaid work as a law clerk.
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After turning in his resignation he quickly found a new job with the Workers' Accident Insurance Institute for the Kingdom of Bohemia.
Kafka remained with the company until 1917, when a bout with tuberculosis forced him to take a sick leave and to eventually retire in 1922. -
His most popular and best-selling short story, "The Metamorphosis," was completed in 1912 and published in 1915.
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Had a difficult relationship with Felice Bauer
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The publisher Rowohlt agreed to publish its first book, Meditations
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In 1916 he completed "The Judgment," which spoke directly about the relationship he shared with his father. Published in 1925 for Max Bod
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they diagnosed him with tuberculosis
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It met in 1923 Dora Gramat, its real and last love