Why don't we call Franz Kafka as Dr Kafka?

Question

This great writer took his doctorate in law at Prague University and since this academic title is prestigious, he deserved to be called so to honor him for his pinnacle achievement. I wonder why, maybe, I think he didn't care or he didn't practice/teach law in any university. Obviously he indulged himself to become a writer alone. Do his avid readers know something deeper on the matter? Thanks.

Answer 1

I think you could have a point, especially since is degree has nothing to do with his writing. Authors who have degrees, and they are writing a novel, don't usually use that title.

I don't know much about Kafka but I read Metamorphosis.

Answer 2

To get a feel for this, read the novels of Umberto Eco, "Foucault's Pendulum" and "The Mysterious Flame of Queen Loanna." The protagonists have taken doctorates in Italian literature. They stayed around long enough. It's not a hard thing to do as long as one has stamina. In what the protagonists do after, their degrees are unimportant.