I turned a travelling salesman into vermin
I wrote The Metamorphosis in 1912: a travelling salesman wakes to find himself transformed into monstrous vermin. Printed in October 1915, it is regarded as one of the seminal works of 20th-century fiction.
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I wrote The Judgment in a single night in 1912
On the night of 22 September 1912 I wrote the story The Judgment in one sitting. It is often considered my literary breakthrough and first set out the father–son conflict that runs through my later art.
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I write isolated people against systems no one can see
I write literature in German that fuses realism with the fantastique: isolated protagonists caught in bizarre predicaments and incomprehensible bureaucratic powers. The Metamorphosis, The Trial and The Castle are my major works.
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