{"version":"1.0","type":"rich","provider_name":"Acast","provider_url":"https://acast.com","height":250,"width":700,"html":"<iframe src=\"https://embed.acast.com/$/636fdb906172140011308b5c/636fdb97a25f4a0011c6abfd?\" frameBorder=\"0\" width=\"700\" height=\"250\"></iframe>","title":"Franz Kafka: Brilliant and Bemused","thumbnail_width":200,"thumbnail_height":200,"thumbnail_url":"https://open-images.acast.com/shows/636fdb906172140011308b5c/1726776649228-8accb921-09a3-4b9c-94ed-678d2195b85c.jpeg?height=200","description":"<p><strong>Listen to the full episode on the WikiSleep app by visiting </strong><a href=\"https://www.wikisleep.com/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>WikiSleep.com</strong></a></p><p><br></p><p>Born in 1883 in Prague, Franz Kafka was a Bohemian novelist and short-story writer, widely regarded as one of the major figures of 20th-century literature. His work fuses elements of realism and the fantastic and typically features isolated protagonists facing bizarre or surrealistic predicaments and incomprehensible socio-bureaucratic powers. He never married, yet had a tortured relationship with sex and was womanizer who was engaged several times. Although the term \"Kafka-esque\" has entered the English language to describe situations like those found in his writing, he was virtually unknown during his lifetime.</p>","author_name":"Adrien Sala"}