- Instructed his friend Max Brod to burn all his work after his death. Max Brod decided to publish it instead.
- His two brothers died as infants in the late 1880s and his three sisters were murdered in the Holocaust.
- None of his work was published in his lifetime and was only found after his death.
- He died of tuberculosis which had moved up to his larynx and robbed him of the ability to speak in his last days.
- Inventor of the Builder's Hard Hat.
- Worked at an Insurance company.
- Considered one of the most influential authors of the 20th century.
- He dreamed of emigrating to Palestine and becoming an artisan/carpenter; later, he contemplated moving to Tel Aviv and opening up a Jewish restaurant with his friend Dora Diamant where she would cook and he would serve as the waiter.
- Kafka has described the US' Statue of Liberty as holding a sword, when it is in fact a torch.
- He was a big fan of movies, an innovation at the time he was alive.
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