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 ...

The experimental literary rapture around Franz Kafka only came about against his wishes after he died, because originally he wanted all his work destroyed.

It took some 60 years for the National Library of Israel to exhibit its collection of Franz Kafka’s letters, books, drawings and notebooks, due to a Kafkaesque journey reminiscent of the writer ...

Franz Kafka’s Doll, a captivating new production by the team behind the award-winning STILL! A Statue That Travelled the ...

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 ...

Where they burn books, they will also ultimately burn people). The books of Heine, Kafka, and Brod were consigned to the bonfires of May 10, 1933, when Germans were ordered: “Reiningt eure ...