Some books make it into readers' hands almost against the odds, arriving decades after the person who wrote them explicitly ...

Franz Kafka had an unusual ability to reduce complicated human behavior to a few unsettling words. “There are two cardinal sins from which all others spring: Impatience and Laziness,” he once wrote.

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41st birthday, Franz Kafka made clear to his best friend and literary executor, Max Brod, that he wanted all of his unpublished ...

What kind of story is it?Published in 1925 (posthumously), this is a novel by the Austrian writer Franz Kafka. One morning, ...

Franz Kafkas reflection, “Do you know the joys of being alone, walking alone, lying in the sun alone?”, offers a gentle ...

Students from Reddam House Atlantic Seaboard, Constantia and Durbanville will stage Kafka … and the Doll, an original musical ...

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To understand the bureaucratic state, read Franz Kafka. Few writers have his knack to convey the peculiar, perverse effects the modern leviathan exerts on the soul as forcefully as this quiet Prague ...

A new translation of Franz Kafka's diaries gives readers the fullest possible picture of his complex relationship with Judaism. Franz Kafka was a devotee of Yiddish theater, fell in love with his ...

When Franz Kafka realized his health was deteriorating in the early 1920s, he asked his friend and literary executor Max Brod to destroy all of his personal documents after his death. “My last request ...

One of Franz Kafka’s characteristic lamentations of writer’s block, captured in a handwritten letter from a sanatorium, is heading to the auction block. Scrawled in neat German cursive, the undated ...

There is a photograph still extant of Franz Kafka arriving in Spindelmühle, the winter resort where on the same evening of January 27, 1922, he began writing The Castle. Like the country doctor of his ...