On March 26 in the Barker Center, admirers of Franz Kafka and enthusiasts of literary translation gathered for a roundtable discussion with award-winning translator Mark Harman. A distinguished ...

Franz Kafka published little during his life and shared the manuscripts of his novels and short stories mostly with confidants in his literary “Prague Circle.” After contracting tuberculosis, Kafka ...

Franz Kafka’s book Letters to Felice and a recent ... As alternative music shifted pop culture in the 1990s, Peter Buck became an avatar for the anti-guitar hero. He created jangly power-pop ...

Celebrated Jewish writer Franz Kafka may have written his most famous works, including the novella “The Metamorphosis,” in German, his mother tongue. But Kafka was proficient in other ...

covers the Sabra scene from south to north and back to the center It took some 60 years for the National Library of Israel to exhibit its collection of Franz Kafka’s letters, books, drawings and ...

The financier John Pierpont Morgan and the writer Franz Kafka appear at first blush to be an odd pair. The titan of finance from Hartford was a modern Midas. The Jewish writer from Prague died young ...

When you think of Franz Kafka, there are a few words that likely come to mind: Lonely, tortured, isolated. But this depiction doesn’t actually tell the full story of Kafka, a new exhibit at The ...

Franz Kafka, a prominent figure in 20th-century literature, is renowned for his surreal and allegorical works. His novels, such as "Metamorphosis" and "The Trial," have captivated readers for ...

The writer Franz Kafka died 100 years ago on June ... In our increasingly alienated culture, Kafka becomes an avatar of alienation. In our world of estrangement, Kafka is estrangement’s ...

Franz Kafka has been hailed as one of the most influential writers in the domain of literary history. Inspired by his poignant short stories and novels, over 250,000 short stories and more than 50,000 ...

And Franz Kafka is played by Joel Basman, who plays him as a tightly coiled repressed loner, who speaks softly, but whose words either make you wince or laugh. He's awkward around most women, but ...