The experimental literary rapture around Franz Kafka only came about against his wishes after he died, because originally he wanted all his work destroyed.
Social media is turning the enigmatic Jewish writer into a shallow meme, writes the author of a new novel based on his work. The writer Franz Kafka died 100 years ago on June 3, 1924, one month ...
Why does Franz Kafka's magic endure even 100 years after his death? What makes Kafka's work feel so modern and contemporary? And why is his story “The Metamorphosis” especially popular in Korea? We ...
Why does Franz Kafka’s spell remain unbroken a hundred years after his death? Why do we still perceive Kafka as so modern and contemporary? Because Kafka wrote such beautiful letters? Because we love ...
Franz Kafka, an Austrian-Czech ... How Many Books Did Kafka Have? Kafka wrote three major novels and a collection of about 40 short stories in his lifetime and posthumously. Kafka was his own ...
It took some 60 years for the National Library of Israel to exhibit its collection of Franz Kafka ... with Kafka began long after the writer’s 1924 death at age 40 from tuberculosis, when ...
Five years later, Kafka’s heirs – the children of his ... Irmgard Keun, Stefan Zweig, Franz Werfel, Lion Feuchtwanger, and Heinrich Mann. Werfel’s 1933 novel The Forty Days of Musa ...
Evan Parks is a Visiting Scholar at New York University’s Center for the Humanities and Director of Education for the Bronfman Fellowship. His research treats modern German literature and culture, the ...
In communist Prague, Kafka was banned. Something similar happened in the Soviet Union and other totalitarian countries, so their citizens were not able to read Franz ... my school years in Prague ...
German pubcaster ARD and Austria’s ORF have commissioned a six-part miniseries on writer Franz Kafka from Austrian prodco Superfilm ... Schalko added: “We already optioned Reiner Stach’s outstanding ...