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 ...

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.

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his 41st birthday, Franz Kafka made clear to his best friend and literary executor, Max Brod, that he wanted all of his unpublished ...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 ...

Exhibition opening on Friday, February 10th from 7-9pm with Larry Cedar's one-man performance of Kafka's THE TRIAL at 8pm, with the exhibition running through March 5th by appointment only.

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 ...

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.