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Discover Franz Kafka's life and major works, including *The Metamorphosis*, *The Trial*, and *The Castle*. Explore his impact ...
In his biography of Franz Kafka, Max Brod declared that his friend never wrote a “single word” that was not “infused with a special magic charm.” Ever since the posthumous publication of ...
Star Idan Weiss shared during a trailer premiere event at the Karlovy Vary festival that Kafka "was in my body for a long ...
A hundred years after Kafka’s death, people and nations are still fighting over his legacy. By Benjamin Balint Benjamin Balint is the author of “Kafka’s Last Trial” and, most recently ...
A new translation of Franz Kafka’s diaries restores much of his Jewish musings The celebrated author of “The Metamorphosis” had a lifelong interest in Jewish ideas, especially Yiddish theater.
A six-part TV series, starring Joel Basman as the enigmatic author, is streaming on Channel 4's Walter Presents and ChaiFlicks in time for the June 6 centenary of Kafka's death.
NPR's Michel Martin speaks with lead actor Joel Basman and director David Schalko about his German-Austrian miniseries Kafka on early 20th century author Franz Kafka, released in the U.S. from June 6.
It’s fitting that this movie is being released now, just after the centenary of Kafka’s death was marked, and as an exhibit is running at the National Library of Israel.
He also got lucky, as Karolina Watroba, an Oxford academic, argues in “Metamorphoses: In Search of Franz Kafka”, a new biography of his afterlife that traces the author’s reception worldwide.
A Franz Kafka exhibition at the Morgan Library offers rarely seen glimpses into the work of the famed novelist.