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 ...

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 ...