Max Brod (left), a recognized writer at the time, relentlessly promoted the writings of his friend, Franz Kafka, played here respectively by David Kross and Joel Basman in the Austrian-German series ...

Celebrated Czech novelist Franz Kafka inspired a host of movies with themes of angst and absurdity set to screen as part of a KVIFF retrospective. By Etan Vlessing, Georg Szalai When it comes to ...

A hundred years after Franz Kafka’s death, two new books testify to his enduring appeal and make the case for reading him afresh. Mark Harman’s translation, Selected Stories, returns to the spikiness ...

Franz Kafka has entered our language as an adjective — “Kafkaesque” is applied nowadays to almost anything that strikes us as senseless or surreal — but the man himself remains obscure. Saul ...

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