Franz Kafka, an Austrian-Czech novelist and one of the most prominent short story writers of the early 20th century, is celebrated for his nightmarish portrayals of isolation, bureaucracy and ...

Get up close to the original manuscript of The Metamorphosis and other Kafka works Dive into previously overlooked aspects of ...

Social media is turning the enigmatic Jewish writer into a shallow meme, writes the author of a new novel based on his work. The writer Franz Kafka died 100 years ago on June 3, 1924, one month ...

What we do see, in a section on Kafka's "afterlife," or the works that he inspired, are proofs of a lovely-seeming children's book inspired by the doll letters, Kafka and the Doll (2021), written ...

Kafka understood this tendency and analyzed it in his books before it took its terrible dimension in the form of totalitarianism and world wars. His work is prophetic because it portrays the world ...

Each is “inspired” by an idea or a line from Kafka, although this is mostly left vague, with a few hints at the end of the book. The reader recognises Kafka’s mood and tone, but gets taken ...

“Kafka learned some Hebrew as a boy — enough to get through his bar mitzvah — but in his mid-thirties he returned to the language and began to study it seriously, with the help of books and ...

Nicolas Mahler is a comic illustrator whose book “Komplett Kafka” (Completely Kafka) is published by Suhrkamp Verlag in Kafka’s centenary year 2024, and it will tour as an exhibition. Ulrich Fügener ...