100 Years Of Franz Kafka: The Famous Author Who Is Still Alive In Pop Culture | In GFX
Celebrating the many voices of Franz Kafka, one of the most important prose writers in the world even a century after his death
![Franz Kafka, who died 100 years ago inspires TikTok memes and T-shirt legends till now.(Image: News18) Franz Kafka, who died 100 years ago inspires TikTok memes and T-shirt legends till now.(Image: News18)](https://images.news18.com/ibnlive/uploads/2024/06/100-years-of-kafka2-2024-06-d5a7f7b2064e194f519cc04a2ec8dda2.jpg)
Franz Kafka, who died 100 years ago inspires TikTok memes and T-shirt legends till now.(Image: News18)
Hundred years after his death, Kafka's ‘K’ still travels widely across the world, making it perhaps the only letter in any alphabet whose passport doesn’t require any visa. (Image: News18)
![Kafka believed that the whole human race was the product of one of “God’s bad days.”(Image: News18) Kafka believed that the whole human race was the product of one of “God’s bad days.”(Image: News18)](https://images.news18.com/ibnlive/uploads/2024/06/100-years-of-kafka4-2024-06-bd6eba99496eaab754f97c0fdc6c5d87.jpg)
Kafka believed that the whole human race was the product of one of “God’s bad days.”(Image: News18)
![The Trial portrays how ludicrous the bureaucratic process can be with its quirky and dark parody of the legal system.(Image: News18) The Trial portrays how ludicrous the bureaucratic process can be with its quirky and dark parody of the legal system.(Image: News18)](https://images.news18.com/ibnlive/uploads/2024/06/100-years-of-kafka5-2024-06-4217c5e43a57c136e18d612e760d59e3.jpg)
The Trial portrays how ludicrous the bureaucratic process can be with its quirky and dark parody of the legal system.(Image: News18)
![The writer was also a man wryly amused by his surroundings, and the ways of the world.(Image: News18) The writer was also a man wryly amused by his surroundings, and the ways of the world.(Image: News18)](https://images.news18.com/ibnlive/uploads/2024/06/100-years-of-kafka6-2024-06-abd8323c77416c2234e8d1512f9b8d58.jpg)
The writer was also a man wryly amused by his surroundings, and the ways of the world.(Image: News18)
![Kafka articulated the discomfort of a wildly disorienting pull in his beautiful and heartbreakingletters to Felice Bauer, whom he met a friend's place.(Image: News18) Kafka articulated the discomfort of a wildly disorienting pull in his beautiful and heartbreakingletters to Felice Bauer, whom he met a friend's place.(Image: News18)](https://images.news18.com/ibnlive/uploads/2024/06/100-years-of-kafka7-2024-06-f35eb4538b78e54aa1ae0820016be583.jpg)
Kafka articulated the discomfort of a wildly disorienting pull in his beautiful and heartbreakingletters to Felice Bauer, whom he met a friend's place.(Image: News18)
![Kafka met Milena in 1920, at a time when she was on the cusp of becoming a rebel icon of her generation.(Image: News18) Kafka met Milena in 1920, at a time when she was on the cusp of becoming a rebel icon of her generation.(Image: News18)](https://images.news18.com/ibnlive/uploads/2024/06/100-years-of-kafka8-2024-06-225d864bd265026fe3244ad4009a0573.jpg)
Kafka met Milena in 1920, at a time when she was on the cusp of becoming a rebel icon of her generation.(Image: News18)
![Kafka’s writings typically feature isolated protagonists facing bizarre or surreal predicaments,(Image: News18) Kafka’s writings typically feature isolated protagonists facing bizarre or surreal predicaments,(Image: News18)](https://images.news18.com/ibnlive/uploads/2024/06/100-years-of-kafka9-2024-06-2a56be2c747a22acb1c8125bd9988e03.jpg)
Kafka’s writings typically feature isolated protagonists facing bizarre or surreal predicaments,(Image: News18)
![His cultural influence extends across a range of dramatic, literary, and musical genres.(Image: News18) His cultural influence extends across a range of dramatic, literary, and musical genres.(Image: News18)](https://images.news18.com/ibnlive/uploads/2024/06/100-years-of-kafka10-2024-06-0c02a5b4c07dbb295fb744cbd6056869.jpg)
His cultural influence extends across a range of dramatic, literary, and musical genres.(Image: News18)
![Kafkaesque refers to a piece of art or a life situation that exemplifies the nightmarish, surreal, and absurd qualities of Kafka’s writings and the world he creates in his stories.(Image: News18) Kafkaesque refers to a piece of art or a life situation that exemplifies the nightmarish, surreal, and absurd qualities of Kafka’s writings and the world he creates in his stories.(Image: News18)](https://images.news18.com/ibnlive/uploads/2024/06/100-years-of-kafka11-2024-06-77462343d4b1950369f70830669e02e4.jpg)
Kafkaesque refers to a piece of art or a life situation that exemplifies the nightmarish, surreal, and absurd qualities of Kafka’s writings and the world he creates in his stories.(Image: News18)