In his biography of Franz Kafka, Max Brod declared that his friend never wrote a “single word” that was not “infused with a special magic charm.” Ever since the posthumous publication of Kafka’s work, ...

In 2006, German author and editor Reiner Stach told an American reporter there was no definitive biography of Franz Kafka. Actually, there is. And he’s written it. My favorite book of 2013 is actually ...

All these different elements are presented in detail and probed with subtle, forensic care in Kafka: The Early Years, the first volume of Reiner Stach’s three-part biography, which, by a suitable ...

To mark the Kafka Year 2024, the Goethe-Institut Ethiopia, together with the Austrian Embassy, is showing a poster exhibition "Komplett Kafka" based on the comic biography by Nicolas Mahler about the ...

The story is well known: the frail, anxiety-ridden young man in Prague who suffers under an overbearing, uncouth father. Every day he trudges off to his boring job at an insurance company. He is drawn ...

The best thing a biographer of Franz Kafka can do is bring the famed author back to earth. Not as regards his reputation, which is justifiably lofty. But to humanize Kafka and save him from our ...

June 3, 2024 marked the centenary of the death of the writer Franz Kafka. Franz Kafka's works are part of the literary canon not only in Germany, not only in German-speaking countries. His narrative ...

Around the 100th anniversary of his death on June 3, the writer is more relevant than ever - and has even become a TikTok star. Franz Kafka had already been suffering from tuberculosis for years, but ...

The novelist talks about his new book, set a century in the future, and why writers should try to describe the wider world—not just themselves. The Political Scene Podcast Adam Schiff on How the Trump ...

All these different elements are presented in detail and probed with subtle, forensic care in Kafka: The Early Years, the first volume of Reiner Stach’s three-part biography, which, by a suitable ...