Kafka's letter to his father - 103 handwritten pages that were never delivered - is an excoriating excavation of his relationship with Hermann, his strict and domineering father, and of his ...

Kafka himself would even write and deliver an introduction to these performances in Yiddish. He would also witness his own father harboring prejudices towards his new friend Löwy: “My father ...

His famous will, in which Kafka asked to burn all his writings after his death, as well as his 100-page “Letter to His Father,” are also on display, as well as Hebrew writing exercises and ...

Why do we continue to find Franz Kafka so compelling 100 years after his death? Why is Kafka still considered to ... more colourful literary panorama beyond the father complex and guilt-and-punishment ...

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 ...

Kafka’s “Metamorphosis” hovers over ... from the outside like a janitor. … My tall, skinny father with silver streaks in his hair, the eyebrows that I brushed and trimmed for him.” ...

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 ...

Diagnosed with TB in 1917, Kafka initially exploited the “consumption,” using it as a pretext to get out of a second engagement to his fiancée, Felice Bauer. Filing for an early pension from ...