Jewish Telegraphic Agency2y
A new translation of Franz Kafka’s diaries restores much of his Jewish musings
(JTA) – Franz Kafka was a devotee of Yiddish theater ... The broad strokes of Kafka’s biography have long been known to historians, but a new English translation of the Czech author’s ...
Goethe1y
Short biography of Franz Kafka
Franz Kafka was born on July 3, 1883 in Prague, then part of Austria-Hungary, where he spent most of his life. From 1889 to 1893, he attended the "German Boys' School" there, followed by the so-called ...
Forbes21d
5 Must-Read Franz Kafka Books And Literary Works
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 ...
Jewish Telegraphic Agency6mon
100 years after his death, Gen Z loves Franz Kafka. Now they ought to read him, too.
The writer Franz Kafka died 100 years ago on June ... in what is becoming a totally quantified society. In his biography of Kafka, Max Brod records a conversation he had with Kafka on Feb. 28 ...
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Finding ‘Kafka': A New German Series Explores the Man Behind ‘The Metamorphosis'
On the surface, Franz Kafka appears to be almost nakedly autobiographical ... is taken directly from from Kafka's letters or from Stach's biography. But Schalko interweaves the facts with the ...
Untapped Cities5d
See the Original Manuscript of Kafka's 'The Metamorphosis' at The Morgan Library
Get up close to the original manuscript of The Metamorphosis and other Kafka works Dive into previously overlooked aspects of ...
The Financial Times22d
Franz steps out of the shadow of his ‘Kafkaesque’ world
Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Franz Kafka’s handsome face, with its patrician cheekbones, tremendous dark eyes and vaguely ironic ...
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Kafka, Our Contemporary
In communist Prague, Kafka was banned. Something similar happened in the Soviet Union and other totalitarian countries, so their citizens were not able to read Franz Kafka. The political ...
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Franz Kafka’s Prague
The cinema as such was called Bio Ponrepo and was run by illusionist Viktor Ponrepo (whose actual name was Dismas Šlambor). You won’t find it there anymore, but it still exists just a few streets away ...
The Jerusalem Post Blogs27d
NLI commemorates centenary of Franz Kafka’s death
While Kafka (1883-1924) passed away June 3 ... Irmgard Keun, Stefan Zweig, Franz Werfel, Lion Feuchtwanger, and Heinrich Mann. Werfel’s 1933 novel The Forty Days of Musa Dagh, depicting Armenian ...
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The Storied Kafka Novella That May Have Never Existed
Knowing the game had to end, however, drove Kafka miserable (sounds like our Franz); therefore ... The Metamorphosis (1915)-that biography of the vermin formerly known as Gregor Samsa, also ...