Someone must have slandered Josef K., for one morning, without having done anything truly wrong, he was arrested. - Franz Kafka

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Someone must have slandered Josef K., for one morning, without having done anything truly wrong, he was arrested.

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About Franz Kafka

Franz Kafka (3 July 1883 – 3 June 1924) was a Bohemian-Jewish novelist, and one of the major German-language fiction writers of the 20th century.

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Alternative Names: František Kafka • Kafka
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Someone must have been telling lies about Joseph K., for without having done anything wrong he was arrested one fine morning. His landlady's cook, who always brought him his breakfast at eight o'clock, failed to appear on this occasion. That had never happened before.
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