Austrian novelists (Book Guide): Franz Kafka, Bertha von Suttner, Stefan Zweig, Robert Musil, Hugo von Hofmannsthal, Elfriede Jelinek - Tapa blanda

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 42. Chapters: Franz Kafka, Bertha von Suttner, Stefan Zweig, Robert Musil, Hugo von Hofmannsthal, Elfriede Jelinek, Thomas Bernhard, Gregor von Rezzori, Waris Dirie, Walter von Molo, Ludwig Anzengruber, Joseph Roth, Alexander Lernet-Holenia, Ödön von Horváth, Joseph Delmont, Heimito von Doderer, Felix Braun, Franz Karl Ginzkey, Alfred Kubin, Eduard Duller, Doron Rabinovici, Leo Perutz, Andreas Latzko, Daniel Kehlmann, Robert Hamerling, Hertha Pauli, Jakob Julius David, Joseph von Sonnenfels, Robert Hohlbaum, Karl Emil Franzos, Jakov Lind, Susanna Kubelka, Aloisia Kirschner, Erich Fritz Schweinburg, Reuben Asher Braudes, Edmund Blum, Erich Hackl, Lilian Faschinger, Albert Ehrenstein, Elisabeth Reichart, Franz Schuh, John Wray, Helene Migerka, Hermynia Zur Mühlen, Annemarie Selinko, Adam Müller-Guttenbrunn. Excerpt: Franz Kafka (German pronunciation: ; 3 July 1883 - 3 June 1924) was a culturally influential German-language novelist. Contemporary critics and academics regard Kafka as one of the best writers of the 20th century. The term "Kafkaesque" has become part of the English vernacular. Kafka was born to middle class German-speaking Ashkenazi Jewish parents in Prague, Bohemia, then part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire. The house in which he was born, on the Old Town Square next to Prague's Church of St Nicholas, now contains a permanent exhibition devoted to the author. Most of Kafka's writing, much of it unfinished at the time of his death, was published posthumously. Kafka at the age of fiveKafka was born into a middle-class Ashkenazi Jewish family in Prague, the capital of Bohemia. His father, Hermann Kafka (1852-1931), was described as a "huge, selfish, overbearing businessman" and by Kafka himself as "a true Kafka in strength, health, appetite, loudness of voice, eloquence, self-satisfaction, worldly dominance, endurance, p...