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 ...
THE DIARIES OF FRANZ KAFKA, 1910-1913 (345 pp.)—Edited by Max Brod—Schocken ($3.75). In 1910, when Franz Kafka was 26, he began keeping a diary. His personality was already obsessed by anxieties that ...
Before succumbing to tuberculosis in 1924, a month shy of his 41st birthday, Franz Kafka made clear to his best friend and literary executor, Max Brod, that he wanted all of his unpublished ...
The cover of Francis Levy’s collection of oddball tales of contemporary living depicts a drawing of the back of a nondescript character calmly looking at a huge colored circle of a cockroach. It’s a ...
Quote of the Day: Franz Kafka's profound quote highlights books as keys to unlocking hidden chambers within the self. His ...
Reiner Stach is the German author of an exceptionally lively and deeply researched multi-volume biography of Franz Kafka that has slowly been making its way into English. In 2005 Harcourt published ...
Franz Kafka died in 1924 at the age of forty, leaving behind not only a fragile body but an intense interior world of journals, sketches, letters, and half-finished manuscripts. Among his papers were ...
An admirer of Franz Kafka’s once presented him with a specially bound volume of three of his stories. Kafka’s reaction was vehement: “My scribbling … is nothing more than my own materialization of ...
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 languages, too, ...
The stories of Franz Kafka have long since passed into the proverbial, the kind of work you need not have read in order to know. Just as we speak of high-stakes intrigues as “Shakespearean,” and ...
Rainer Maria Rilke’s claim that fame is the ‘sum of all misunderstandings’ is certainly true of Franz Kafka, whose ...
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