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.” ...

For Harman, translation is not merely a mechanical process of matching words, but an effort to breathe life into the ...

Kafka died in 1924 of tuberculosis ... to name just two examples. The first page of Franz Kafka’s “The Metamorphosis” (Die Verwandlung) (photo Natalie Haddad/Hyperallergic) “A Report ...

The writer condemns the nightmarish dystopia being created by the Trump administration and its Republican supporters in our ...

When Kafka died in 1924, Brod was given a plain and uncompromising order. ‘Dearest Max,’ Franz wrote, ‘My last request: Everything I leave behind me … in the way of notebooks, manuscripts, letters, my ...

The Boy Who Disappeared" against a backdrop in an America that bears a striking resemblance to Franz Kafka's 1927 novel.

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Born in Prague in 1883, Franz Kafka grew up to be one of the ... especially since it was never finished. Sadly, Kafka died of tuberculosis before he could end this work. These wild stories that ...