Franz Kafka in Prague: The Real Locations that Inspired The Trial, The Metamorphosis, and The Castle

On July 3rd, 1883, in Prague, the Jewish, German speaking, bohemian author, Franz Kafka, was born. Prague is both important and immaterial to understanding the work of Kafka. It's immaterial because although we can map locations in Prague to locations in Kafka's fiction, Kafka doesn't generally describe those places in detail or name them, instead creating a more ephemeral sense of a city that could be almost anywhere. But Prague is also important to understanding Kafka because he lived practically his entire life here and in quite a contained part of the city that had an enormous impact on him. This video was filmed in March 2024.