Abstract：Diaspora literature has gradually become one of the hot issues in academic circles in the 1980s and 1990s. Franz Kafka is a Jewish writer who writes in German and mainly lives in Prague, the central city of Europe. He is not a typical diaspora writer because he does not have “personal diaspora experience”, and his works do not explicitly “express individual or group diaspora life”. However, not only Kafka’s thought but also his creation embody obvious “diasporality”. Kafka is a writer who was born, grew up and lived in the boom of diaspora, which must have influenced and shaped his unique writing style. In a word, both the tradition of diaspora culture and the source of today’s thriving diaspora literature could be traced back to Kafka.
Key words: Franz Kafka; diaspora literature; diasporality; Jewry; Set Out
