The experimental literary rapture around Franz Kafka only came about against his wishes after he died, because originally he wanted all his work destroyed.

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 ...

Born in Prague in 1883, Franz Kafka grew up to be one of the ... the thoughts of a most fantastical man that cover topics ...

(JTA) – Franz Kafka was a devotee of Yiddish theater ... and toward the end of his life fell in love with Dora Diamant, the daughter of an Orthodox rabbi who taught him Hebrew (though she ...

Get up close to the original manuscript of The Metamorphosis and other Kafka works Dive into previously overlooked aspects of ...

including Hebrew — a fact that some scholars point to when making the case that his Jewishness played a large role in his creative life. And now, visitors to “Franz Kafka,” an exhibit ...

Kafkaesque, relating to the Czech writer Franz Kafka (1883-1924), is a term that has gone beyond the scope of literature and has become prevalent in discussions of philosophy, life, our states and ...

Franz Kafka, seated second from right ... of an artist navigating the complexities of full-time employment, family life, social life, love life and the tuberculosis that would kill him.

On the hundredth anniversary of his death, Franz Kafka’s life and work are being celebrated and illuminated. In his new graphic novel, illustrator Nicolas Mahler gives them a colourful brilliance – ...

As well as other books about Franz Kafka’s life and works, Reiner Stach wrote a three-volume biography of the author, which was published by S. Fischer Verlag: Kafka. Die Jahre der Entscheidungen ...