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 ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

From there, Brod – still faithfully shlepping Kafka’s notes, diaries, and sketches in a suitcase – sailed to Tel Aviv. He deposited the Kafka trove with Berlin-born publisher Salman Schocken ...

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When Kafka died in 1924, he left Brod a letter reiterating his wishes: “Everything in my estate . . . including diaries, manuscripts, letters from others, and myself, drawings, etc., should be burned ...