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

As Kafka writes, “The right understanding of any matter and a misunderstanding of the same matter do not wholly exclude each other.” There is something addictive about reading “The Trial.” Just when ...

Jeanne Moreau, who starred in The Trial, photographed in 1963. Photo by Getty Images. A reasonable summary of the film might go like so: Josef K. (Anthony Perkins, two years after Psycho) wakes up ...

The Trial was written over the period 1914-15, when Kafka was in his early 30s. Like his two other novels – Amerika (alternatively known as The Man Who Disappeared) and The Castle – it was ...

At the end of The Trial, Joseph K. is coldly executed. However, Kafka indicates that he was complicit: Joseph K. had the power to resist his executioners as they led him to his death, and didn’t.

Fast-forward to the early 21st century, which is when most of the action of Kafka’s Last Trial takes place. Esther Hoffe, then around 100, was living on Spinoza Street (another Kafkaesque touch ...

Before succumbing to tuberculosis in 1924, a month shy of his 41st birthday, Franz Kafka made clear to his best friend and literary executor, Max Brod, that he wanted all of his unpublished ...

Exclusive: Welles' disturbing 1962 Franz Kafka adaptation starred Anthony Perkins in his post-"Psycho" mode. It's now returning to theaters courtesy of Studiocanal and Rialto Pictures. Unless you ...

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.

Franz Kafka’s passport photograph c.1915. Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons. Joseph K.’s grisly fate plays out in an anonymised city, most likely derived from Kafka’s home of Prague.