On Nov. 5, the Kelly Writers House hosted a conversation with translator Mark Harman about his new translation of Franz Kafka’s “Selected Stories.” The event consisted of Harman discussing the process ...

THE DIARIES OF FRANZ KAFKA, 1910-1913 (345 pp.)—Edited by Max Brod—Schocken ($3.75). In 1910, when Franz Kafka was 26, he began keeping a diary. His personality was already obsessed by anxieties that ...

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41st birthday, Franz Kafka made clear to his best friend and literary executor, Max Brod, that he wanted all of his unpublished ...

“Dearest Max . . . burn all my diaries, manuscripts, letters . . . completely and unread.” When Max Brod, in 1924, defied Franz Kafka’s dying wish to consign his papers to flames, he committed a ...

When the Franz Kafka exhibit opened at The Morgan Library & Museum in November 2024 it marked two important centennial milestones: the opening of the Morgan Library and the anniversary of Kafka’s ...

Social media is turning the enigmatic Jewish writer into a shallow meme, writes the author of a new novel based on his work. The writer Franz Kafka died 100 years ago on June 3, 1924, one month shy of ...

A new book of the modernist’s sketches reveals the tension he saw between words and images. Beneath this drawing ca. 1901-07, in India ink on a sheet of paper that is now torn, Kafka wrote, in German: ...

Quote of the Day: Franz Kafka's timeless words offer a unique perspective on youth and beauty. His quote suggests that the ability to see beauty keeps one young at heart. Kafka, a 20th-century writer, ...

Franz Kafka’s quote reminds us that happiness isn’t life’s destination, but a quiet consequence of living with meaning, acceptance, and purpose.