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 ...

Franz Kafka, an Austrian-Czech novelist and one of the most prominent short story writers of the early 20th century, is celebrated for his nightmarish portrayals of isolation, bureaucracy and ...

The celebrated author of “The Metamorphosis” had a lifelong interest in Jewish ideas, especially Yiddish theater. (JTA) – Franz Kafka was a devotee of Yiddish theater, fell in love with his ...

Franz Kafka appears to be almost nakedly autobiographical. One could draw a straight line between Josef K.'s struggles in The Trial - as a man arrested for an unknown crime and condemned to death ...

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 Kafka. The political ...

The central focus of the beginning of the short story is on a complex torture machine that painfully etches the crime of the condemned into ... And that is it. Kafka’s hollow universe is left ...

While Kafka (1883-1924) passed away June 3 ... Irmgard Keun, Stefan Zweig, Franz Werfel, Lion Feuchtwanger, and Heinrich Mann. Werfel’s 1933 novel The Forty Days of Musa Dagh, depicting Armenian ...