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admirers of Franz Kafka and enthusiasts of literary translation gathered for a roundtable discussion with award-winning translator Mark Harman. A distinguished figure in Kafka studies, Harman has ...
The writer Franz Kafka died 100 years ago on June 3 ... He will become, as all else in today’s increasingly vacuous culture, merely a figure for memes — and this despite having produced ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...