The writer Franz Kafka died 100 years ago on June ... In our increasingly alienated culture, Kafka becomes an avatar of alienation. In our world of estrangement, Kafka is estrangement’s ...

But a television miniseries released in the U.S. this month shows Prague-born author Franz Kafka, whose work inspired the word, as anything but kafkaesque. Tortured recluse he is not here.

By Scott Roxborough Europe Bureau Chief 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 ...

And Franz Kafka is played by Joel Basman, who plays him as a tightly coiled repressed loner, who speaks softly, but whose words either make you wince or laugh. He's awkward around most women, but ...

With just one modest anecdote, you may fathom the Torah! Franz Kafka wasn’t a rabbi, exactly, but he is the high priest of 20th-century literature, and he also wrote in parables. In a brief one ...

Just as Franz Kafka’s prose both demands and evades interpretation, something about his legacy has both solicited and resisted claims of ownership. Despite his astonishing clairvoyance about the ...

Europe is shattered and people die in unimaginable numbers,” wrote Franz Kafka about World War I, in one of many moments that seem especially relevant today from the new television series Kafka ...

A letter giving a rare insight into Franz Kafka’s struggle with writer’s block is going up for auction. Best-known for the 1915 novella “The Metamorphosis,” the Prague-born Jewish writer ...

The correspondence is undated, but experts think Kafka wrote it in the spring of 1920. Sotheby’s One of Franz Kafka’s characteristic lamentations of writer’s block, captured in a handwritten ...

When you think of Franz Kafka, there are a few words that likely come to mind: Lonely, tortured, isolated. But this depiction doesn’t actually tell the full story of Kafka, a new exhibit at The ...