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 ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

“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 ...

Franz Kafka’s Doll, a captivating new production by the team behind the award-winning STILL! A Statue That Travelled the World, brings a timeless story of empathy, imagination and loss to the stage.

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 ...