was franz Kafka good or what?

Answer 1

Great thought provoking literature a shame like so many he was only recognised after his death. I think all his works a great again its just a shame some were left unfinished. Should be grateful for what we have I suppose!!

Answer 2

Franz Kafka was one of the major German-language fiction writers of the 20th century. A middle-class Jew based in Prague, his unique body of writing — many incomplete and most published posthumously — has become amongst the most influential in Western literature.

I guess that should answer your question.

Answer 3

No. Franz Kafka is superb.

Answer 4

I've read just about everything that he wrote including his three "unfinished novels." Obviously, I thought he was good, but you'll have to find out for yourself. There's not another author like him and there never will be. Try some of his short stories--"The Metamorphosis" is his most famous work and the first line of it goes: "Gregor Samsa woke after a night of disturbing dreams to find himself transformed into a huge insect--" (depending on the translation.) His stories are often seemingly absurd, but terribly realistic in a nightmarish sense.
You can read very deeply into this troubled artist and find strange secrets of his life revealed in his work--or, you can read them as written and draw your own conclusions. He didn't try very hard to be published during his lifetime and requested that all his work be burned when he was on his deathbed. He was "only" a clerk--an insurance adjustor, and a failure according to himself, and seemingly, his father. His work is strangely autobiographical and very twisted and tormented but accessable to the reader--Kafkaesque has come into the English language to describe insane situatios in which a person is persecuted for no apparent reason. He was a fascinating man--a double minority--a German Jew living in Czechoslovakia just before the rise of the Nazis. I suggest you try "A Hunger Artist," "The Metomorphosis," "In the Penal Colony," and "The Trial," to begin with. But, be careful, one morning you may wake to find yourself transformed into a huge insect and find it very difficult to get dressed for work. Enjoy.

Answer 5

LOVED his story "The Hunger Artist." When I researched for a paper on it, I learned that he seemed to have an anorexia-type eating disorder and obsession with thinness... Interesting.

Answer 6

Probably but I find him incomprehensible. The adjective "kafkaesque" (like that in French anyway) is, on the other hand, perfectly comprehensible and immediately understandable - used about bureaucracy for example....

Answer 7

so good, i read metamorphis when i was 15 and got hooked from then on, i used to stay late in class and talk about his work with my teacher... i also love his short story about the old man who wrestles with the ghosts every night, i just wish i could find the book and read it again.

Answer 8

we have referred to some of his works at Uni, but not in great detail. There's quite a bit about him on wikipedia - check up existentialism.

Answer 9

You mean morally? I am not sure.
I really loved Metamorphosis. Very unsettling.

Answer 10

He is amazing but reading his work can be a trial