A book,” a 20-year-old Franz Kafka wrote to his friend Oskar Pollack in 1904, “must be the axe for the frozen sea inside us.” ...

One of Franz Kafka’s characteristic lamentations of writer’s block, captured in a handwritten letter from a sanatorium, is heading to the auction block. Scrawled in neat German cursive ...

A letter from Franz Kafka in which he tells a friend ... In the one-page letter in German and signed just "Kafka", the Prague-born novelist says he has not written anything in three years.

Franz Kafka, Author, read by Alan Scarfe, Jack Wetherall. CBC Audio $15.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-660-19550-6 Relatively unknown as a writer during his short lifetime, Kafka (1883–1924) became a major ...

100 years after the death of Franz Kafka, a new mini-series aims to dive beneath the surface of an author who remains enigmatic even as his influence on the culture continues to grow. Kafka ...

On March 26 in the Barker Center, admirers of Franz Kafka and enthusiasts ... glimpse into his translation of Kafka’s works, and how he conceptualizes the author’s voice in each one.

It feels so right that the name Kafka is tied to this bookshop. Franz Kafka's novel “The Metamorphosis” is one of the most popular novels in Korea. What do you think is the reason? The desire for ...

Franz Kafka did not spend most of his life in cafés and brothels. He also did not spend it travelling outside Prague, although he would certainly have been inclined to do so. No – much of his time had ...

Ian Hislop and Helen Lewis explore the extent to which the works of George Orwell and Franz Kafka continue to express the reality and frustration of life in the 21st century.