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Discover Franz Kafka's life and major works, including *The Metamorphosis*, *The Trial*, and *The Castle*. Explore his impact ...
THE DIARIES OF FRANZ KAFKA, 1910-1913 (345 pp.)—Edited by Max Brod—Schocken ($3.75).In 1910, when Franz Kafka was 26, he began keeping a diary. His personality was already obsessed by ...
A masterful new Kafka book will bring you closer to the writer than ever before Mark Harman’s new translation of Kafka’s stories may just be the best book published this year.
A hundred years after Kafka’s death, people and nations are still fighting over his legacy. By Benjamin Balint Benjamin Balint is the author of “Kafka’s Last Trial” and, most recently ...
The writer Franz Kafka died 100 years ago on June 3, 1924, one month shy of his 41st birthday. A century after his death, the books and stories by the Jewish writer from Prague remain widely read ...
A century after Franz Kafka’s death, writers like Georges Rodenbach, Dino Buzzati, Zoran Zivkovic and C.D. Rose carry on his off-kilter legacy.
His parables aren’t supposed to make sense. Franz Kafka wasn’t a rabbi, exactly, but he is the high priest of 20th-century literature, and he also wrote in parables.In a brief one called “On ...