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.

Discover Franz Kafka's life and major works, including *The Metamorphosis*, *The Trial*, and *The Castle*. Explore his impact ...

100 years after the death of Franz Kafka, a new mini-series aims to dive beneath the surface of an author who remains enigmatic even as his influence on the culture continues to grow.. Kafka, an ...

Metamorphoses: In Search of Franz Kafka is, mercifully, no conventional biography. We don’t need one: Reiner Stach’s monumental three-volume Kafka will remain definitive for quite some time.

In 2006, German author and editor Reiner Stach told an American reporter there was no definitive biography of Franz Kafka. Actually, there is. And he’s written it. My favorite book of 2013 is act… ...

The Czech writer Franz Kafka posing before Kinsky Palace on the square of the old town in Prague, Czech Republic, where his father held a shop, around 1896-1906. (Photo by Keystone-France/Gamma ...

WHEN Franz Kafka’s “The Trial” appeared posthumously in the 1920s, ... (They are in Ernst Pawel’s excellent Kafka biography “The Nightmare of Reason,” which Stach seems to think little ...

Franz Kafka, photographed as a young teen around 1906. ... “Kafka: The Early Years” completes what is easily the definitive biography of this writer who was as haunted as his work is haunting.

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 ...

Reiner Stach is the German author of an exceptionally lively and deeply researched multi-volume biography of Franz Kafka that has slowly been making its way into English. In 2005 Harcourt ...