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 ...
Franz Kafka was born in Prague in 1883 to a Jewish merchant family ... ended up in Auschwitz and died there in September XNUMX. He spent his childhood almost alone. His mother tongue was German, as ...
Celebrated Jewish writer Franz Kafka may have written his most famous works, including the novella “The Metamorphosis,” in German, his mother tongue. But Kafka was proficient in other ...
Knowing the game had to end, however, drove Kafka miserable (sounds like our Franz); therefore ... The Metamorphosis (1915)-that biography of the vermin formerly known as Gregor Samsa, also ...
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 ...
Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Franz Kafka’s handsome face, with its patrician cheekbones, tremendous dark eyes and vaguely ironic ...
It was the macabre staples: H.P Lovecraft, Edgar Allan Poe, Mary Shelley and Franz Kafka. These are the authors ... for someone like Punpun does for his childhood love or moving out into the ...
The case of WG Sebald is somewhere between the two. When Sebald died in a car crash in 2001 at the age of 57, he was just achieving his deserved fame as the author of remarkable prose works including ...