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 ...

Working in the artistic tradition of Franz Kafka, Joseph Conrad, Henry James, and Gustave Flaubert, Kundera wrote about big themes and important ideas with elegance. He broached the kinds of ...

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 ...