Franz Kafka wasn’t a rabbi ... The Czech novelist Milan Kundera gave a famously dyspeptic answer to that question: The translator should translate humbly. In a 1993 essay, he berates those ...

Born in Prague in 1883, Franz Kafka belonged to the German-speaking Jewish minority, which made him somewhat of an outsider to begin with. He also felt little acceptance from his family and ...

Franz Kafka is one of the best-known German-language authors in the world, even though he has been dead for 100 years. Franz Kafka is one of the best-known German-language authors in the world ...

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 ...

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.

“A book,” a 20-year-old Franz Kafka wrote to his friend Oskar Pollack ... Fellow Czech writer Milan Kundera, whose youth was shaped by Stalinist communism, characterised the Kafkaesque as ...

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 ...

“A book,” a 20-year-old Franz Kafka wrote to his friend Oskar Pollack ... Fellow Czech writer Milan Kundera, whose youth was shaped by Stalinist communism, characterised the Kafkaesque as ...