Brod, M.

...His father was a strong, robust and ambitious merchant, and Kafka was tormented by the desire to live within his father's sphere throughout his life, but later he would incorporate this conflict into his works through a strong process of introspection and abstraction. After a relatively solitary childhood, he attended a German-speaking gymnasium and entered the German University in Prague in 1901, where he met his lifelong friend Max Brod (1884-1968). In 1906 he received his doctorate in law, and in 1908 he became a civil servant at the Bohemian Workers' Accident Insurance Bureau in Prague. During this time, he was seen to have inclinations towards socialism, anarchism, the Czech independence movement, naturopathy, and East Jewish culture, but his greatest interest was in how to live through writing. ...

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…父親は強壮頑健な立志伝中の商人であり，カフカは生涯この父親の圏内に生きる思いに苦しめられたが，のちにその葛藤を強い内省的な抽象過程を経て作品に定着させていく。　比較的孤独な幼年時代ののち，ドイツ語のギムナジウムを経て1901年プラハのドイツ大学に入学，終生の友マックス･ブロートMax Brod(1884‐1968)と知りあい，06年法学博士，08年プラハのボヘミア王国労働者傷害保険局に勤務して公務員となった。その間，社会主義，無政府主義，チェコ独立運動，自然療養主義，東ユダヤ文化などへの傾斜が随時見られるが，最大の関心はいかにして書いて生きるかにあった。…

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