He still has a few thrills in store. This spring, Yale University Press published “Franz Kafka: The Drawings,” a 368-page volume presenting hundreds of sketches by the writer for the very ...

Franz Kafka: The Drawings; Edited by Andreas Kilcher; Yale University Press; 368 pp., $50.00 Franz Kafka: The Drawings has troubled origins. Kafka’s art passed through many hands, several of ...

But he did it his way. In one notable case, Brod refused to publish. Though he’d collected many drawings Kafka made as a student between 1901 and 1906 (as the writer clearly remembered in his ...

Among the rare items on display are the original manuscript of Kafka’s Letter to His Father, Hebrew notebooks, drawings, his original last will (in which he requested that his writings be burned ...

Six times Kafka fiddles with a sketch about the adverse effects of education, which he ultimately abandons. Occasionally, there are first drafts of full works, including “The Judgment,” the ...

Dora Diamant, Kafka's partner for the last year of his ... his letters to absent lovers and booming fathers, and his drawings ...