August Nemo

Kafka's father had a profound impact on both Kafka's life and writing.

literature, Kafka's characters were often coming up against an overbearing power of some kind, one that could easily break the will of men and destroy their sense of self-worth.

Kafka's celebrity as a writer only came after his death.

only after he died and Max Brod went against the demands of his friend that Kafka and his work gained fame.

The Enlightenment included a range of ideas centered on the sovereignty of reason and the evidence of the senses as the primary sources of knowledge and advanced ideals such as liberty, progress, toleration, fraternity, constitutional government and separation of church and state