id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt en-wikipedia-org-5020 Franz Kafka - Wikipedia .html text/html 18381 2848 78 At the end of his first year of studies, Kafka met Max Brod, a fellow law student who became a close friend for life.[31] Brod soon noticed that, although Kafka was shy and seldom spoke, what he said was usually profound.[33] Kafka was an avid reader throughout his life;[34] together he and Brod read Plato's Protagoras in the original Greek, on Brod's initiative, and Flaubert's L'éducation sentimentale and La Tentation de St. Antoine (The Temptation of Saint Anthony) in French, at his own suggestion.[35] Kafka considered Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Gustav Flaubert, Nikolai Gogol, Franz Grillparzer,[36] and Heinrich von Kleist to be his "true blood brothers".[37] Besides these, he took an interest in Czech literature[25][26] and was also very fond of the works of Goethe.[38][39] Kafka was awarded the degree of Doctor of Law on 18 July 1906[b] and performed an obligatory year of unpaid service as law clerk for the civil and criminal courts.[6] ./cache/en-wikipedia-org-5020.html ./txt/en-wikipedia-org-5020.txt