Franz Kafka (3 July 1883 – 3 June 1924) was a German-speaking Bohemian from Prague, Czechoslovakia. His novels and short-stories are regarded as one of the major literary achievements of 20th-century literature. His work fuses elements of realism and the fantastic. The Zürau Observations (Zürau Betrachtungen ) are 109 aphorism written from September 1917 to April 1918 after he discovered that his tuberculosis was terminal.

‍