A book,” a 20-year-old Franz Kafka wrote to his friend Oskar Pollack in 1904, “must be the axe for the frozen sea inside us.” ...

It took some 60 years for the National Library of Israel to exhibit its collection of Franz Kafka’s letters ... as well as ...

World News // 1 decade ago Franz Kafka, Max Brod works go to Israel National Library: Court Ownership of Franz Kafka's and Max Brod's literary works will be transferred from private hands to ...

Franz Kafka is one of the best-known German-language authors in the world, even though he has been dead for 100 years. So why is he still so popular today? Born in Prague in 1883, Franz Kafka ...

On March 26 in the Barker Center, admirers of Franz Kafka and enthusiasts of literary translation gathered for a roundtable discussion with award-winning translator Mark Harman. A distinguished ...

In 1916 Franz Kafka wrote on a postcard “I’m getting fat!” and listed all the foods he’d been feasting on. Over a hundred years later, artist Alex Braden in St. Louis, Missouri, reads this and ...

Yes, it would be a mistake to limit the scope of Franz Kafka’s activities only to the hundred-spired Czech capital. After all, what about Siřem, where he loved to go to visit his sister’s country ...

But who really was the graduate lawyer Franz Kafka? The TV documentary reveals that his narratives and novels were not as incomprehensible as many might claim. Several text passages are ...