Proces

Franz Kafka is considered a key figure in world literature of the 20th century. He was born on July 3, 1883 in Prague, in a family of well-to-do German Jews. During his lifetime, he published a number of shorter and longer stories, such as "Transformation" (1915), and the novels "Proces" (1925), "Castle" (1926) and "Amerika" (1927). Kafka's works depict gray and banal everyday life as an enigmatic and illogical reality filled with apprehension, in which the characters, oppressed by a sense of guilt and confusion, are constantly exposed to the threat of bureaucratic forces whose source or motive they cannot fathom.