Was Max Brod the Judas Iscariot of 20th-century literature ... But the act of betrayal was also good for the brand: One can imagine Franz Kafka, detached and double-crossed, declaring from ...

In 1915, Franz Kafka read two draft chapters of his novel in progress, “The Trial,” to his close friend and fellow writer, Max Brod. “The Trial” remained uncompleted when Kafka died from ...

July 3 would have marked Franz Kafka’s 139th birthday ... his lifelong friend and eventual literary executor Max Brod also said he had a “double talent.” While studying at Charles University ...

What should you do? That was the dilemma facing Max Brod, the best friend of author Franz Kafka, widely regarded as one of the major figures of 20th-century literature. Their story will come to ...

But a television miniseries released in the U.S. this month shows Prague-born author Franz Kafka ... with his close friend Max Brod — who ultimately defied Kafka's wish to have all his ...

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41st birthday, Franz Kafka made clear to his best friend and literary executor, Max Brod, that he wanted all of his unpublished ...

His best friend, Max Brod, whom he had met while studying law ... sometimes feel just as lost as the author's characters. Franz Kafka's themes of alienation and isolation, and questions of ...

The first time Franz Kafka’s voice entered my head ... was based on a bowdlerized and substantially altered German edition that Max Brod, Kafka’s literary executor, had prepared.

On the surface, Franz Kafka appears to be almost nakedly autobiographical ... So we get Kafka as seen by his close friend and literary executor Max Brod, who famously defied his friend’s ...

Max Brod (left), a recognized writer at the time, relentlessly promoted the writings of his friend, Franz Kafka, played here respectively by David Kross and Joel Basman in the Austrian-German ...